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glenwilson

glenwilson

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I have been running my PC on 250GB SSD for a while now with no real issues. It is just Windows and any system related stuff on there, all files are on other drives. Just noticed that I am down to 6gb free. Done all the usual disk clean-ups and manually deleted files so it looks like a larger SSD is required to give a bit of breathing room.

I may bite the bullet and upgrade the PC after Christmas as it is getting on a bit now and getting something similar to what laka got. Seems like a good time to do the OS drive at the same time. Have not looked at a PC mag or hardware for ages so am a bit out of date on stuff.

Looks like the Gigabyte A320m-S2H will take PCIe storage. Is it worth going down that route as a 500gb drive is about £50 which is similar to a 'normal' SSD drive.

Just wondering if anyone has had experience of them and is it worth it for the performance?

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Looks like that motherboard will work with an M.2 SSD. If you can get one for a good price I strongly recommend getting an M.2 SSD over a SATA SSD. They are a lot faster, and usually have a way higher TBW (total bytes written meaning their lifetime)

I personally recommend Samsung SSD's (3 out of 4 SSD's in my system hehe), but I've used a Corsair MP510 for a while now for games storage and I'm very happy with it.

Edit: Will make some more recommendations, but need to make dinner first
 
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ItsDABAUZZ said:
and usually have a way higher TBW (total bytes written meaning their lifetime)
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If you buy from the right brand lifetime is not such a problem. I sadly think that the new ssd utility cant read out total written gb on my 250gb intel ssd.

Its from 2013 I think.

I dont know how there should be different memory in a pcie ssd for lasting them longer the basic technology is the exact same to my knowledge

uff sorry have written into the quote
 
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Here are my personal recommendations for SSD's. As I (and @samoz83 )said before, my preference goes to Samsung, I trust them with my data :)

1. Samsung 970 Evo (Plus)
2. Corsair Force MP510
3. Kingston A2000
 
I like them for speed mostly, but other nice option is you loose 2 wires (power and sata) .
 
Thanks. The c drive which is what it would be is just OS and drivers so there shouldn't be a lot of data writing for files. I keep downloads, apps, pictures etc on separate HDDs and games and any videorecording on a couple of cheaper SSDs (well they were relatively cheap when I got them).
 
glenwilson said:
Thanks. The c drive which is what it would be is just OS and drivers so there shouldn't be a lot of data writing for files. I keep downloads, apps, pictures etc on separate HDDs and games and any videorecording on a couple of cheaper SSDs (well they were relatively cheap when I got them).
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I think prices for nvme ssds are pretty fair so its worth a try - I still havent got one since I bought my last ssd when i didnt have a mainboard with m2 support.

But the difference between SataSSD and PCIESSD will not be the same as going from HDD to SSD - it almost felt as if windows is now in realtime instead of 0.6x times speed. We celebrated almost at work as our PC was instantly booted - downsinde was he had to start to work immediatly and no coffeebrake at 9am.
 
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I think it sounds worth it. With an SSD it takes about 20 seconds from hitting start to being able to do something. Probably have a budget of about £500. MB, CPU and RAM is about £340. Guess I need to do some research as the bits laka got are not available.
 
glenwilson said:
I think it sounds worth it. With an SSD it takes about 20 seconds from hitting start to being able to do something. Probably have a budget of about £500. MB, CPU and RAM is about £340. Guess I need to do some research as the bits laka got are not available.
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Where is lakas list of hardware then?
 
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+1 for the Samsung Evo series, I use them everywhere. I have had 2 total failures of Kingston drives in the past
 
ah here it was. lol

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Nope Im still having issues lol, after 5 years i think an upgrade is in order, so i shall be checking out the sales, .. wish me luck, , lol
 
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