I had made my mind up as soon as you said the board could only only run SATA. My only query was which one to get...lol 500 v 1tb.'cause userbenchmark is trash.
Just grab an 860 Evo, that's what I was running in all those sata slots.
My Samsung one didn't last that long...started degrading and losing storage space after a few years.
I use one for the operating system only....the data sits on regular drives.
Someone else said the same thing to me recently funny enough
I had made my mind up as soon as you said the board could only only run SATA. My only query was which one to get...lol 500 v 1tb.
I was intrigued as it seems to show the 500 as better value and sentiment? but the figures did not seem to back that up. I wondered if I was missing something.
I hadn't come across iDrive but am going to give it a go Dropbox is working well for my sync but is lacking on backup options.I've long given up on all that RAID stuff....I just back up the data drives to the cloud as it's so cheap these days. iDrive offer a very good service but there are plenty of others too....iDrive just points to my data drives and does a continuous backup.
They're not as reliable for long-term storage compared to the spinning disk types. Also only recently have they actually out-performed magnetic ones, yes they do feel much much quicker but that's because SSDs have linear time for searches anywhere on the disk, if you're doing sequential reads or writes then up until a few years ago magnetic disks could keep up. The magnetic ones suffer when you have to do lots of random reads across the disk (which is why defragging was a useful thing to do) which is why they feel much quicker most of the time. But if you're doing long data captures (e.g. recording video to disk and so on) then magnetic ones could keep up with SSDs until recently.I'm surprised that these solid state drives have problems/haven't completely replaced the spinning type by now.
That was my understanding when they came out.They're not as reliable for long-term storage compared to the spinning disk types. Also only recently have they actually out-performed magnetic ones, yes they do feel much much quicker but that's because SSDs have linear time for searches anywhere on the disk, if you're doing sequential reads or writes then up until a few years ago magnetic disks could keep up. The magnetic ones suffer when you have to do lots of random reads across the disk (which is why defragging was a useful thing to do) which is why they feel much quicker most of the time. But if you're doing long data captures (e.g. recording video to disk and so on) then magnetic ones could keep up with SSDs until recently.
Mind you SSDs were practically limited by the bandwidth available on the connections. Since those have been increased then the SSD manufacturers can up the bandwidth of the SSDs trivially.
hadn't come across iDrive but am going to give it a go Dropbox is working well for my sync
Your Rich... LolHonestly SSD's peaked out SATA bandwidth quite a while ago, which most HDD's still aren't near doing. And 4k reads and writes that you do most of with the OS, etc, are orders of magnitude faster on SSDs.
Not really an issue for a media storage drive but any drive you're actually working on live is a huge difference generally with SSD's, even video editing (which are mainly sequential if you can't pull the file into ram) will give you far, far better scrubbing on SSDs.
I've been full SSD for a few years now, I only have a couple of HDD's on the shelf that are backup drives.
Wish you had told me all this yesterday..lolprice of 1 tb samsung ssd
https://www.cclonline.com/product/2...TA-6GB/s-Solid-State-Drive-Internal-/SSD0901/
so as i only need so much storage on a main pc i would use another way
https://www.cclonline.com/product/2...-SATA-III-Internal-Solid-State-Drive/SSD0718/
https://www.cclonline.com/product/2...Hard-Disk-Drive-SATA-6Gb/s-Internal-/HDD2950/
i prefer storage space but want/need a good os hard drive so 250gb is ample enough for me via a main pc
for laptop its ample enough at 500gb for some storage and os system however a 1tb is better
https://www.cclonline.com/product/2...5-Inch-SATA-Internal-Hard-Disk-Drive/HDD2758/
as you will see when they are the same price why have 5gb when 1tb is better
https://www.cclonline.com/product/2...-Inch-SATA-Hard-Disk-Drive-Internal-/HDD2782/
but i make backups, learnt that years ago the hard way
an extra 20.00 gets you 2tb instead
Not see those prices before mate..its not the first time ive posted the same info to your post
They're not as reliable for long-term storage compared to the spinning disk types. Also only recently have they actually out-performed magnetic ones, yes they do feel much much quicker but that's because SSDs have linear time for searches anywhere on the disk, if you're doing sequential reads or writes then up until a few years ago magnetic disks could keep up. The magnetic ones suffer when you have to do lots of random reads across the disk (which is why defragging was a useful thing to do) which is why they feel much quicker most of the time. But if you're doing long data captures (e.g. recording video to disk and so on) then magnetic ones could keep up with SSDs until recently.
Mind you SSDs were practically limited by the bandwidth available on the connections. Since those have been increased then the SSD manufacturers can up the bandwidth of the SSDs trivially.
@bigegg
both of us have said ccl
https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/500gb-ssd.86982/#post-1253934