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#5480635 Posted on: 10/11/2017 01:57 PM
Damn, not bad.
Even less excuses for some people to not have SSD now.
It makes me sad how I see gtx1070, 6700k machines still without SSD because "it makes no difference"
Damn, not bad.
Even less excuses for some people to not have SSD now.
It makes me sad how I see gtx1070, 6700k machines still without SSD because "it makes no difference"
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#5480639 Posted on: 10/11/2017 02:11 PM
Damn, not bad.
Even less excuses for some people to not have SSD now.
It makes me sad how I see gtx1070, 6700k machines still without SSD because "it makes no difference"
They should try playing certain games that require the SSD for loading textures mid-game (such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds).
As far as the storage... unfortunately I recently had to buy a 3TB HDD for 90€, because SSD is still very expensive for those who require larger storage drives. I would love to eliminate the HDD as well, but 850-1000€ for 3TB worth of SSDs is at this point still too much. I run SSDs in Raid 0 as my primary "drive".
Damn, not bad.
Even less excuses for some people to not have SSD now.
It makes me sad how I see gtx1070, 6700k machines still without SSD because "it makes no difference"
They should try playing certain games that require the SSD for loading textures mid-game (such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds).
As far as the storage... unfortunately I recently had to buy a 3TB HDD for 90€, because SSD is still very expensive for those who require larger storage drives. I would love to eliminate the HDD as well, but 850-1000€ for 3TB worth of SSDs is at this point still too much. I run SSDs in Raid 0 as my primary "drive".
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#5480658 Posted on: 10/11/2017 02:45 PM
The only sata ssd I would consider buying right now would be a 4gb drive, to replace mechanical drives entirely for backup data, and not just for the data I could cull down now to squeeze my backup stuff onto a 2tb drive....why would you buy an expensive drive if it is immediately full.
For a performance drive; boot drive and gaming it's worth the extra money for an m.2 drive, but I wouldn't even want to imagine what a 4TB m.2 drive would cost.
The only sata ssd I would consider buying right now would be a 4gb drive, to replace mechanical drives entirely for backup data, and not just for the data I could cull down now to squeeze my backup stuff onto a 2tb drive....why would you buy an expensive drive if it is immediately full.
For a performance drive; boot drive and gaming it's worth the extra money for an m.2 drive, but I wouldn't even want to imagine what a 4TB m.2 drive would cost.
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#5480752 Posted on: 10/11/2017 07:07 PM
price still has ways to go 1 tb ssd roughly about 300$ 1tb hdd 29-39$
price still has ways to go 1 tb ssd roughly about 300$ 1tb hdd 29-39$
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#5480757 Posted on: 10/11/2017 07:14 PM
I'm still waiting for that 1TB $99 SSD, but I guess that won't happen in my lifetime...
I'm still waiting for that 1TB $99 SSD, but I guess that won't happen in my lifetime...
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#5480878 Posted on: 10/12/2017 04:07 AM
Well, there no difference once everything loaded up. It's just tiny bit loading that last for ages.
I moved from Raid0 HDD to 512GB SSD (EVO 850) for gaming drive. To be honest I expected loading to be faster. While I don't have to wait 4 minutes to load BF4 map, it still takes solid half a minute. Maybe setting in AHCI will improve it, or perhaps SSD is not cure to all loading times.
It makes me sad how I see gtx1070, 6700k machines still without SSD because "it makes no difference"
Well, there no difference once everything loaded up. It's just tiny bit loading that last for ages.
I moved from Raid0 HDD to 512GB SSD (EVO 850) for gaming drive. To be honest I expected loading to be faster. While I don't have to wait 4 minutes to load BF4 map, it still takes solid half a minute. Maybe setting in AHCI will improve it, or perhaps SSD is not cure to all loading times.
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#5480881 Posted on: 10/12/2017 04:30 AM
We still haven't quite hit Shrout's Law yet but we are getting closer.
We still haven't quite hit Shrout's Law yet but we are getting closer.
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#5480937 Posted on: 10/12/2017 09:31 AM
Well, there no difference once everything loaded up. It's just tiny bit loading that last for ages.
I moved from Raid0 HDD to 512GB SSD (EVO 850) for gaming drive. To be honest I expected loading to be faster. While I don't have to wait 4 minutes to load BF4 map, it still takes solid half a minute. Maybe setting in AHCI will improve it, or perhaps SSD is not cure to all loading times.
Yeah in most games the difference after launching the game is not massive but I didnt mean just gaming.
Well, there no difference once everything loaded up. It's just tiny bit loading that last for ages.
I moved from Raid0 HDD to 512GB SSD (EVO 850) for gaming drive. To be honest I expected loading to be faster. While I don't have to wait 4 minutes to load BF4 map, it still takes solid half a minute. Maybe setting in AHCI will improve it, or perhaps SSD is not cure to all loading times.
Yeah in most games the difference after launching the game is not massive but I didnt mean just gaming.
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Man that ain't bad at all for the price. I'll actually consider it since I've been entertaining the idea of going full SSD and dropping the old HDD in my old system as a NAS.