SSD upgrade question.

[Nirad9er]

If I planned on keeping my rig for a few years despite the video card upgrades, would it be best to maybe wait another year to get a SSD and a sata 3.0 pci card (my mobo only has sata 2.0)? I wouldnt get anything less than 250gb and they are just too expensive right now. Im not gonna upgrade my mobo just to get sata 3.0 when I can get a PCI express card for about $40. When do you think SSD prices will come down to a more reasonable level?

Thanks

 

[NotJay]

if you are thinking of mechanical hard drive level still many years away
depends whats reasonable for you..

 

[tonyb]

You can do a combo rig. Get a 128 SSD, they're not too expensive, and put your OS and programs on it. Large media files like mp3s and movies don't really benefit from SSD, so keep those on a large traditional HD.

That's what I'm doing right now, and it's amazing. Once you go SSD, you never want to go back. I'm using a 64 GB SSD drive, but it's a bit tight. 128 GB would be plenty with me keeping my large media files on a separate physical drive.

 

[ghost6303]

"reasonable" is relative. i dont think SSD prices are going to be similar to HDD prices for atleast 5 years (if ever; 5 cents per GB is already rock bottom), and by that time who knows what will be available. SATA3 controllers are still immature as a whole, were more or less rushed to market as a selling point, and i would not want to buy a $40 SATA3 card right now as it would probably be outperformed by a more mature onboard SATA2 controller. very few SSDs currently utilize SATA3 anyway.

if you plan on waiting for the "next big thing", plan on waiting for the rest of your life. there will always be a next big thing around the corner. if anything, just wait until the Gen.3's come out sometime next quarter and decide then.

 

[Old Hippie]

You can do a combo rig. Get a 128 SSD, they're not too expensive, and put your OS and programs on it. Large media files like mp3s and movies don't really benefit from SSD, so keep those on a large traditional HD.

This.

Get reasonable and go for a decent SATAII SSD for your OS and programs.

Those $30.00 SATA6Gbs cards are worth their weight in gold....Fool's Gold!

 

[todlerix]

Going from HDD to SSD to an SSD extreme is sort of like

Tony Stark to Iron Man 'Mark III' to Iron Man 'Extremis'

Extremis might be better, but can anyone really tell the difference?

 

[tonyb]

Going from HDD to SSD to an SSD extreme is sort of like

Tony Stark to Iron Man 'Mark III' to Iron Man 'Extremis'

Extremis might be better, but can anyone really tell the difference?

Yeah, I can tell the difference. But it only benefits the high IOPs, like OS and program operations, also databases. For playing MP3s? No benefit whatsoever. Maybe editing video would benefit, but rendering wouldn't benefit.

 

[vraa]

Yeah, I can tell the difference. But it only benefits the high IOPs, like OS and program operations, also databases. For playing MP3s? No benefit whatsoever. Maybe editing video would benefit, but rendering wouldn't benefit.

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