What SSD should you buy? In normal times, we'd simply tell you to follow our Best Storage guide. But during flash sales, lesser known drives may be worth buying at a healthy discount. But which ones?
What SSD should you buy? In normal times, we'd simply tell you to follow our Best Storage guide. But during flash sales, lesser known drives may be worth buying at a healthy discount. But which ones?
Disagreed. Cacheless SSD's as system drive are sometimes around HDD speeds.For more than 90% of users, the difference between SSDs won't be noticeable - simply buy the cheapest one you can.
If you have specific needs (photo editing, video rendering, etc), then you probably already know what you need anyways...
As a SYSTEM drive yes - but those aren't what most people are buying - that is already bundled with your system (90% don't build their own). When most people are buying an SSD, they will be buying an addon drive...Disagreed. Cacheless SSD's as system drive are sometimes around HDD speeds.
Probably because the vast majority of people don't need them? For media and backups, traditional HDDs are perfectly fine - not to mention VASTLY cheaper per gigabyte...It's amazing to me how dudes spending way over MSRP on GPU but won't spend $400 for a 4TB or $700 for an 8TB SSD.
Disagreed. Cacheless SSD's as system drive are sometimes around HDD speeds.
Yup I saw this on the one I tried, plus the lifetime is horrible. Luckily they were only $20 apiece but I blew out two (120GB) HP S700s within months. With no cache, you get horrendous write amplification since any random 512 byte write gets written out (re-writing 4MB or whatever the cell size is to rewrite 1/2048th of a MB...) instead of sitting in a on-drive cache waiting a bit for the other related writes to come in first.Disagreed. Cacheless SSD's as system drive are sometimes around HDD speeds.
It's amazing to me how dudes spending way over MSRP on GPU but won't spend $400 for a 4TB or $700 for an 8TB SSD.
Add RAID for extra speed/redundancyProbably because the vast majority of people don't need them? For media and backups, traditional HDDs are perfectly fine - not to mention VASTLY cheaper per gigabyte...
IMO, at this point in history, anything less than 500GB is a complete waste. Even 500GB doesn't make sense now that 1TB are ~$100.
Great article, thanks!
Understanding the hardware you own, too! More shocking.So understanding what the SSD's specs means will help you decide between them? Shocking.
Well, most of us don't have unlimited funds to spend. What we do have extra was already spent on the video card so your statement makes no sense.
I would upgrade my NAS to 40TB for that kind of money. 250/500GB boot drive and 1TB games drive is plentyFORGIVE ME for assuming ya'll had money like that.
My bad.