cssjim Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 I have yet to use an SSD drive but keeping told due to the lack of moving parts they are VERY much quicker. Any thoughts would be much appreciated before I spend my money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraphicRoman Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 In my opinion they are very quick and worth spending money on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infin1tum Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 a SATA SSD provides about triple the r/w speed of an HDD. a NVMe SSD will have about 10x - 20x r/w speed of an HDD. Your mileage will vary but you will see a massive increase in load times etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zotty Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 single biggest upgrade you can make to a pc that doesnt have one... boot times will amaze you.. load times will amaze you...... buy one.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie_Cat Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 I have yet to use an SSD drive but keeping told due to the lack of moving parts they are VERY much quicker. Any thoughts would be much appreciated before I spend my money depends on what your current motherboard is capable of, if it can support an NVMe drive, definitely get one. its lightning fast. if it can only support sata connections, then definitely still get a sata ssd. either way its gonna be a huge upgrade in terms of loading, but i advise getting at least a 1tb ssd because these days games are massive, and if you want to benefit from loading times from any games you play currently, you need the space to do so :). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraphicRoman Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 I do think they are a huge improvement, the loading times are very quick. If you are unsure, here is an article about SSD which gives a good overview as I think. I hope it can help you. It's in german but you can easily translate it with some programms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamiller Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 I agree with the previous speakers. I myself have been using an SSD for a long time and am highly satisfied with it! In this article you can also have a look at the advantages and disadvantages of a SSD, as well as a comparison between SSD and HDD. (The article is in German, but you can easily translate it for example with DeepL) https://www.heimkinoheld.de/externe-ssd-festplatte-test/ It is about external hard drives, but the principle is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevBiker Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Just to pile on ... it's probably the single, least expensive and most impactful upgrade you can make. Switching your boot drive from magnetic spinning platters to an SSD will be mind-blowingly faster. Consider this - load time for the OS and applications is more dependent on disk than anything else. Not only do SSDs have faster transfer rates, they don't have the seek times or fragmentation associated with spinning platters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crghsam Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 t's probably the single, least expensive and most impactful upgrade you can make. Totally agree with that we recently upgraded a lot of our PCs to SSD and the impact on boot up times alone has saved money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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