SSD worth the money?

cbutler said:
Just bought the Samsung 840 Pro, 550MB/s read and write is immense. Load time on my MacBook is literally 10 seconds (timed it :)). Games are instant and haven't seen it freeze (yet?)

In terms of life, it comes with a five year warranty which is longer than any mechanical drive has ever lasted me.
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+1

I've also upgraded my laptop with a Samsung 840 Pro 512Gb. The speed difference is immense and not just the startup. Everything is faster. I do nightly backups to a NAS drive so not worried about write cycles.
 
Clive said:
Not sure that would help, wouldn't you end up with 2 duff disks at the same time?
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Don't think so, the number of write cycles before failure is an average of sorts, so one drive will fail before the other. If you replace both when the first one fails, that should be fine.
 
shugie said:
Don't think so, the number of write cycles before failure is an average of sorts, so one drive will fail before the other. If you replace both when the first one fails, that should be fine.
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Depends how the 2 disks are mounted in raid. If it is raid 1 which they should be they are in a mirror. What gets written to one gets written to the other at the same time. Both disks in this case would have exactly the same writes on them so in theory should fail at the same time as far as reaching the write limit. I am not saying it's a bad idea because it isn't but it's probably not the solution in this case. An off the machine backup is the better solution.
 
This is all getting well beyond my capabilities but i've decided on getting a 250gb SSD and an 1tb HD for backups both built into the machine. If i'm using win 7 is there a simple to use bit of software that will auto backup selected data 'Fields'? to the hd?
 
Shep said:
This is all getting well beyond my capabilities but i've decided on getting a 250gb SSD and an 1tb HD for backups both built into the machine. If i'm using win 7 is there a simple to use bit of software that will auto backup selected data 'Fields'? to the hd?
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What do you mean data fields?
 
cbutler said:
What do you mean data fields?
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I knew that would be the wrong word:D

My use is dead basic, what i would like is 'my documents' auto backed up to the HD, on a daily basis, most days i draw up vectorised/digitized images for use for engraving, i can nearly always get by if i lost something but it is a pain, dead simple I suppose, but i just don't know how:nenau
 
Shep said:
This is all getting well beyond my capabilities but i've decided on getting a 250gb SSD and an 1tb HD for backups both built into the machine. If i'm using win 7 is there a simple to use bit of software that will auto backup selected data 'Fields'? to the hd?
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There are dozens of them from free to expensive. If you want really simple and just folder to folder get synctoy. A bit more complicated but will backup live as in you change, add or delete a file it will auto do it in the backup get cobian backup. If you want an image based backup which will also restore your whole machine get a copy of todo backup free. These are all free and very reliable. There are loads more but I have used and can recommend these. If you want to pay although not a lot then get syncovery. I use this at work to copy terabytes of data off site every day.
 
Cheers i'll take a look:thumb

I knew it must be simplish to do, up till now i've used an external drive and just backed up manually whenever i've remembered:blast
 
Any of the above will do the job for you. Of course if you are using a schedule only then you need to pick a time you know your laptop is on. Best bet is either continuous sync via cobian or syncrify or set the schedule to run on login if missed but you will have to fiddle to get that with synctoy.
 
I have about 30 Hard Drives in my home/office. I have 3 SSD's. Never really noticed the speed thing in real life, but then I am Mac based. Did notice the failures - one HD and one SSD. Given that the HD's date from 2001- 2013, and the SSD's date from 2011-2013 I am not buying another SSD in the foresable future.
 
cbutler said:
Whatever that means...


You are either using 99999k SCSI discs - which don't exist, and not doing anything with the computer. Or are just in denial to the fact SSD thrashes even the best SCSI 15k discs.
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+2 Bottleneck in your computer rather than difference in speed of disk.
SSD with m/board to exploit it is much faster than spinner...
 
I have just finished my first self build pc and had been thinking about a SSD for the OS. However I wieghed up the the pros and cons versus bang for buck and decided on a new 500 gb HDD against a 60gb SSD for the same price. The new machine boots into Ubuntu in 35 seconds and I have loads of storage space on the other partitions for all my data.
 
I'm just in the process of installing updates to Windows after fitting a new SSD, mainboard and CPU to my daughters PC. I used a 250GB Samsung 840 SSD this time and I have to say it's nowhere near as fast as the OCZ Vertex 4 I recently fitted into my sons gaming rig. It's still a lot quicker than my Macbook with a mechanical HDD running Mountain Lion though.
 
SSD is the way forward...

Had a Samsung 840 256gig SSD in my Sony Vaio lappy for more than a year now, and its just so so fast.

And i've just upgraded to a 500gig Samsung Pro SSD in my desktop.
Massive improvement in speed of boot-up, shut down and everything in between...:thumb
 
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