Upgrade my SSD?

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Rogue71

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Not having much to upgrade in the last few years, my system has become kinda cluttered and im at the point where i need to do a fresh install. I presently have a corsair gt 240 as my main drive and a wd 640 black as my secondary/minor game/storage drive. My main drive is only about half full and could be less so im not worried about needing more space. Would i benefit from getting a newer SSD such as the Samsung 850 EVO, (numbers im seeing online say no) That being said, if i didnt need a newer system drive, would i really benefit from using an ssd for the secondary? Money isnt really the issue, i just dont want to make changes that wont benefit the system.
 
eh...do you have any complaints about it? If you dont got money to burn just wait for a new system using Skylake, Kaby, or Zen and go NVMe.

Your really at the point of needing to build a whole new system given the current stuff coming out. NVMe, Next-Gen GPUs, better CPUs, XPoint, DDR4, and so on.
 
In my opinion just get a 1TB SSD and dump your secondary drive.

You have higher capacity than what you have now and everything will be FAST FAST FAST! Game load times especially :)
 
Your current SSD is plenty fast.

The Samsung 850 EVO 500GB is the price/performance sweet spot right now. I'd pick up one of those and use that as your secondary.
 
Yea that is exactly what I ended up doing....wish it came with free motivation...lol
 
chanchan said:
In my opinion just get a 1TB SSD and dump your secondary drive.

You have higher capacity than what you have now and everything will be FAST FAST FAST! Game load times especially :)
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A few caveats to this recommendation...

Do you have some sort of network storage or backup storage that uses standard magnetic storage? If not, then don't dump your secondary drive, unless you plan to get an enclosure for it to use as an external data backup or USB NAS through your router.

SSDs are awesome, and getting better and better... but when they fail, that's it... all data is gone and completely unrecoverable. With magnetic storage, even if your controller or actuator arm fails, the data can still be recovered, and those prices are more affordable now too.

So even if you use the SSD as your primary file access, just be sure you are making backups to your standard drive.
 
RedJamaX said:
A few caveats to this recommendation...

Do you have some sort of network storage or backup storage that uses standard magnetic storage? If not, then don't dump your secondary drive, unless you plan to get an enclosure for it to use as an external data backup or USB NAS through your router.

SSDs are awesome, and getting better and better... but when they fail, that's it... all data is gone and completely unrecoverable. With magnetic storage, even if your controller or actuator arm fails, the data can still be recovered, and those prices are more affordable now too.

So even if you use the SSD as your primary file access, just be sure you are making backups to your standard drive.
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Well backing up your important data is always the smart thing to do. Is data recovery on mechanical drives actually affordable now?

In my experience I've seen a lot more mechanical drives fail than SSD's in my days, I would personally have more faith in SSD if I did not have any backup solution in place.

But having a redundantly configured NAS or Cloud backup is always key!
 
horrorshow said:
The Samsung 850 EVO 500GB is the price/performance sweet spot right now. I'd pick up one of those and use that as your secondary.
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I recently got one of under $100 from Tiger. Set deal alerts and you can find some pretty sweet deals on these.
 
RedJamaX said:
A few caveats to this recommendation...

Do you have some sort of network storage or backup storage that uses standard magnetic storage? If not, then don't dump your secondary drive, unless you plan to get an enclosure for it to use as an external data backup or USB NAS through your router.

SSDs are awesome, and getting better and better... but when they fail, that's it... all data is gone and completely unrecoverable. With magnetic storage, even if your controller or actuator arm fails, the data can still be recovered, and those prices are more affordable now too.

So even if you use the SSD as your primary file access, just be sure you are making backups to your standard drive.
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Not true. You can still recover data from SSDs if the drive fails: http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/655-ssd-flash-recovery.html

But in either case (SSD or HDD) it is going to cost you a lot of cash, hundreds if not thousands of dollars so the data better be worth it.
 
[21CW]killerofall;1042048653 said:
Not true. You can still recover data from SSDs if the drive fails: http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/655-ssd-flash-recovery.html

But in either case (SSD or HDD) it is going to cost you a lot of cash, hundreds if not thousands of dollars so the data better be worth it.
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Comes back to the notion of make backups backups backups! Sadly my file system organization has gotten so out of hand that I don't practice what I preach, though my data does feel invulnerable on my SSD.
 
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