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Mattthezombie · 01-26-2013, 04:24 AM

Looking for a good external solid state hardrive, Anyone know where I can get a good one for the price under $120?

**Tumor** · 01-26-2013, 04:26 AM

SSDs aren't even very useful especially with the price they are at now. The best thing one will give you is like a 2 second faster boot time. If you want to use one for games to get 1-2 fps more then you will need a huge one for all your games which would be really fucking expensive. Don't waste your money just get new parts or something

Mattthezombie · 01-26-2013, 04:28 AM

All I want is a good size one for storing extra files, like videos from fraps and everything. I only got 20 GBs free on my internal.

**Tumor** · 01-26-2013, 04:30 AM

Then why the fuck would you want an SSD? You can get like a 1tb - 2tb external for under $150

Burnacid · (This post was last modified: 01-26-2013 07:43 AM by Burnacid.)

Samsung 380 or 390

(01-26-2013 04:26 AM)Tumor Wrote: SSDs aren't even very useful especially with the price they are at now. The best thing one will give you is like a 2 second faster boot time. If you want to use one for games to get 1-2 fps more then you will need a huge one for all your games which would be really fucking expensive. Don't waste your money just get new parts or something

You fool. Then you are doing it wrong. Hdd have an io per sec of 160 while ssd have a 20 000. Boot time of w7 on average 60 % faster. And programs installed same.

(01-26-2013 04:28 AM)Mattthezombie Wrote: All I want is a good size one for storing extra files, like videos from fraps and everything. I only got 20 GBs free on my internal.

Ssd are not made to store files but to be quick storagespace

Vito · 01-26-2013, 10:50 AM

Got a 2tb desktop expansion for $99 with usb3.0

Hail · 01-26-2013, 10:59 AM

amazon.com?

Clutch · 01-26-2013, 03:20 PM

I don't think you need an SSD. In my honest opinion SSD's are overrated. If you want to store lots of data for a cheap price just get a HDD external hard drive. For a 500GB SSD you're looking to pay around 300-500$

Burnacid · 01-26-2013, 06:17 PM

SSD is not made for storage!

**Tumor** · 01-26-2013, 06:22 PM

(01-26-2013 06:17 PM)burnacid Wrote: SSD is not made for storage!

eventually they will be

Clutch · 01-26-2013, 08:50 PM

(01-26-2013 06:17 PM)burnacid Wrote: SSD is not made for storage!

What the fuck are you talking about.
You can store things on it, but it's not meant for that?

**Tumor** · 01-26-2013, 09:59 PM

(01-26-2013 08:50 PM)Clutch Wrote:
(01-26-2013 06:17 PM)burnacid Wrote: SSD is not made for storage!

What the fuck are you talking about.
You can store things on it, but it's not meant for that?

They are totally meant for storage lol, they are like HDDs but way faster and they don't have loose parts inside. They are going to replace HDDs within the next 10 years probably

Kerp · 01-26-2013, 10:04 PM

lol

What burnacid means is that they are not made for storing a lot of big stuff on them, they are made for storing a few commonly used programs and your OS to make them boot faster.
It really wasn't that hard to figure out what he meant.

Aflac · 01-26-2013, 10:39 PM

(01-26-2013 10:04 PM)Kerp Wrote: lol

What burnacid means is that they are not made for storing a lot of big stuff on them, they are made for storing a few commonly used programs and your OS to make them boot faster.
It really wasn't that hard to figure out what he meant.

Yeah, I figured that, but he's wrong.
Sure that's what most people use them for now, but they're all around more efficient so when the price goes down people and companies will switch from HDDs to SSDs for all the basic storage.

Burnacid · 01-26-2013, 11:00 PM

what SSD's are used for in IT currently.
In a big fileserver or database server as X percent of the storage. It is the first storage used. Recent info is stored there or data that is used often. If data is not getting used for X days the data gets moved to cheaper high storage HDD. This way we have fast processing but still cheap and lots of storage

Clutch · 01-27-2013, 04:35 PM

I put every thing on my SSDs, they don't seem to have performance issues.

Saddam · (This post was last modified: 01-27-2013 04:37 PM by Saddam.)

DO NOT buy SSDs unless you want a fast boot drive.

NEVER buy 2TB HDDs because they are notorious for being unreliable.

Clutch · 01-27-2013, 04:38 PM

(01-27-2013 04:36 PM)Saddam Wrote: DO NOT buy SSDs unless you want a fast boot drive.

NEVER buy 2TB HDDs because they are notorious for being unreliable.

I have no problems with my 2x 500GB SSD

**Tumor** · 01-28-2013, 04:08 AM

(01-27-2013 04:38 PM)Clutch Wrote:
(01-27-2013 04:36 PM)Saddam Wrote: DO NOT buy SSDs unless you want a fast boot drive.

NEVER buy 2TB HDDs because they are notorious for being unreliable.

I have no problems with my 2x 500GB SSD

Why in the world would you waste so much money for 2 SSDs?

Marshmellow · 01-28-2013, 10:57 AM

I have a 256 GB Samsung 830 or something
works alright for me, I've had no problems with it