Alright, I have a question about SSDs. What do they help with exactly? Do they just help the PC boot up faster? Why do you put the OS on them? I've just really wondered this because it seems almost everyone puts them in builds over 700-1000 and they cost like 100$+ for like 256 GB...
Thanks for any help.
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
in a single word, Speed. Pure speed is the only reason, though it is a very nice thing.
my computer went from 4 minutes from power to usable to under a minute, battlefield 4 and other games i have saved on there load in a few seconds. no loading in Skyrim over 2 seconds. its a bit pricey but if you can fit it in the budget its incredible
Alright, Thanks for the info!! Yeah, my pre built goes from clicking the power button to being able to use the internet in around 5 minutes currently. I heard they don't have that long of lifespans, is that true? Is putting the OS on it the thing that makes it speed up powering up? And if it dies with your OS on it what happens?
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
You can install the OS to it, or if you have an Intel based system with a Z67 or newer board you can use part of the SSD as a cache for the harddrive, where it automatically moves the most used things to it at system start, thus speeding up the entire system without using up the space on the SSD.
Thanks for any help.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein
Current setup: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/PJzPD3
my computer went from 4 minutes from power to usable to under a minute, battlefield 4 and other games i have saved on there load in a few seconds. no loading in Skyrim over 2 seconds. its a bit pricey but if you can fit it in the budget its incredible
i5-4690K @4.6GHz ~ ASRock Z97X Fatal1ty Killer ~ EKWB Supremacy MX ~ Watercooled SLI STRIX 970s
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein
Current setup: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/PJzPD3
Lifetimes are not going to be a problem, they can survive years of writes, far more then any normal person would ever hit http://techreport.com/review/25681/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-testing-data-retention-at-300tb thats writes, reads will not hurt it, but reformatting and heavy writing will, such as recording, but it wont be a massive problem
Same thing that would happen with a HDD, you would have to reinstall the OS and anything that was on it when it died
i5-4690K @4.6GHz ~ ASRock Z97X Fatal1ty Killer ~ EKWB Supremacy MX ~ Watercooled SLI STRIX 970s
Project RedShift