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<blockquote data-quote="Glock 40" data-source="post: 3233322" data-attributes="member: 32"><p>SlugSlinger you mentioned the most noticeable thing with an SSD boot times cut to seconds from from over a minute. The last machine I built I am still using. It was built the end of 2011 at that time the price point was $1.75 a gig for smaller ssd drives. I put in a 128gig Crucial drive as my OS disk. All my programs are written to that drive and all caching done there. When I completed the machine from turning power on till it was fully loaded at the desktop was 18 seconds. 7.5 years latter that disk is still kicking along with no issues. My wifes laptop has a 128gb ssd disk also and it is probably 6 years old with no issues.</p><p></p><p>I spent many years in a large data center with 20k+ devices. I did Enterprise storage and Servers. I can tell you SSDs are very robust and will outlast the usefulness of most computers. The drive I mentioned before still shows a 93% life and the disk has been on 2931 hours . Its so old it wont show the amount of host writes like newer ones will. Anyone that asks me I always tell an SSD is the most important upgrade you can make to improve computer performance. I replaced my 1TB HDD storage disk with a 1TB SSD a couple years ago at that time the price was down to .25 a gig. I remember when 3.5in HDD got to $100 a gig in 97 or 98 and thought that was the best price ever a 3.5 gig drive for $350 I thought I could download the world. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]136519[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glock 40, post: 3233322, member: 32"] SlugSlinger you mentioned the most noticeable thing with an SSD boot times cut to seconds from from over a minute. The last machine I built I am still using. It was built the end of 2011 at that time the price point was $1.75 a gig for smaller ssd drives. I put in a 128gig Crucial drive as my OS disk. All my programs are written to that drive and all caching done there. When I completed the machine from turning power on till it was fully loaded at the desktop was 18 seconds. 7.5 years latter that disk is still kicking along with no issues. My wifes laptop has a 128gb ssd disk also and it is probably 6 years old with no issues. I spent many years in a large data center with 20k+ devices. I did Enterprise storage and Servers. I can tell you SSDs are very robust and will outlast the usefulness of most computers. The drive I mentioned before still shows a 93% life and the disk has been on 2931 hours . Its so old it wont show the amount of host writes like newer ones will. Anyone that asks me I always tell an SSD is the most important upgrade you can make to improve computer performance. I replaced my 1TB HDD storage disk with a 1TB SSD a couple years ago at that time the price was down to .25 a gig. I remember when 3.5in HDD got to $100 a gig in 97 or 98 and thought that was the best price ever a 3.5 gig drive for $350 I thought I could download the world. [ATTACH=full]136519[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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