Anyone running a SSD? How do you like it?

I am finally giving up on getting my wifi to work on my home theater PC and hardwiring it.

So I want to speed it up a bit, mainly boot speed. Are they worth the price? They have come down dramatically in price, so I think it might be worth it.

 

Long term reliability is still questionable, but the technology has matured a lot. We have found that the most reliable SSD's are Intel, followed by the Samsung 840 Pro series.

It will speed up your bootup speed, and also speed up opening programs that are installed on it. You don't want to use them for data, they fill up too fast. There will be absolutely no improvement in streaming media.

For improving streaming, you should be Gigabit across your whole network - both adapters and router/switch ports.

 

That is basically what I have been getting from my research. Newegg has tons of reviews about dead SSD's from all manufacturers, but looks like Samsung has the least.

My plan has been to just install OS and software on it, then use my current 1TB HDD for storage.

 

I think I am going to go with the Samsung 840 Pro 128GB $114 on amazon

 

Good choice. This is just as good and cheaper:



If you want 180gb at essentially the same price as the Samsung 128:

 

Already bought the Samsung, but just for kicks I looked around and found a comparison of the 2

 

samsung 840 pro 128gb here
no complaints at all, besides i wish would have bought one sooner.

restart time is incredible when paired with asrock instant boot

 

Just what I wanted to hear

 

I'm running 3 systems that all have the 840 Pro SSDs with 256 gigs pop each. No complaints.

If you are looking for reliable storage go with WD Black, Seagate Constellation ES3, or a HGST Ultrastar. I've got 2 systems setup running 6 4TB drives in a RAID 5 using AMD controllers. One system running Blacks and one running the ES3s.

 

I think I only have a few hundred gigs of music and movies... I think my 1TB HDD as a secondary drive will be fine.

I do also have a 2TB Seagate share drive on my network though...but the software for it sucks

 

Ehhh... those share drives are, "You get what you pay for..." If I wanted to do a computer-less NAS, I'd buy a Synology and filler'up.

 

I have a Corsair Neutron 256GB SSD and a 2TB Western Digital Black. The only thing on my SSD are Windows 7 and my Flight Simulator. Boot speed is impressive. I spend 3 seconds in POST, then black screen, then the little "Loading Windows" thing where the tiles go together and bam, at my desktop. I clocked it at 12 seconds from power button to idle desktop. When you open something, it just POPS as soon as you let off the click, its impressive. I'll never go back to HDD for operating systems.

 

I never said the Intels were as fast as the Samsungs - I was only commenting on reliability.

 

Yeah, the seagate share was given to me, haven't used it in a couple years.

GLC-yeah, I know, just saying if the reliability is similar, but almost double the speed, might be worth the extra few bucks.

 

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