anyone else running a ssd?

[Thizzelle]

I have Kingston 120gb SSD that runs windows 8 and my games. Like others say it takes about 10s to boot, 3s to shut down and like 15s for a whole restart. Crazy fast

[rturbo 930]

Sounds like you have a cheap SSD. Its why I no longer buy pre builts, they use cheap components and retail pricing.

It's a Samsung

[Sea Aych]

Some Corsair SSDs and i think some Samsung ones offer migration tools too, so that you can clone your current hard drive to the SSD so that you don't have to re-install windows or anything. Then you can sort out your files later.

That said though, installing a new drive is a great excuse to flush your computer and start fresh

[Fusion]

Kingston has a full hw kit for about +$10 for doing a HDD->SSD swap.
I kept my laptop's HDD and put it in the DVD bay, but it sleeps 90% of the time.

[ParsedOut]

128GB Crucial SSD here, love it. Linux Mint boots in less than 10 seconds and Windows in less than 20...IIRC. Shit stays on pretty much all of the time. Oh yeah, only used for my OS and installed applications. Personal docs are stored on my linux home server with RAID and cloud backup.

[TurboJake]

1x 256GB Cruicial C300 SSD boot drive
1x 128GB Crucial M4 SSD Intel SRT cache attached to a:
1x Seagate 4TB SSHD


Then, the carryovers
1x 1GB WD caviar black
2x 2TB WD green for storage/data backup

I have throughput and storage for daize.


SSD? Hands down, do it.

[Fusion]

WTF does everyone need TB of space for?
I have 120+320GB and its more than enough.

[Exodus_2pt0]

Media.

My entire movie, television, and music collection is on here. No dvd/blue ray player. Just a Raspberry Pi with XBMC and a wired connection to that and my rig.


That said, I lost a ton of media when my last hard drive filed. This time it's backed up, but I am only at around 500gigs right now. Still nice to know that I have 1.5TB of usable space.

[TurboJake]

WTF does everyone need TB of space for?
I have 120+320GB and its more than enough.

That up there is just my main PC. Doesn't include my NAS to backup everything. I've never lost any data.

ORIGINALLY I was a VPN Porn and data server for the 687th CSSB when they were sent overseas, then word spread and it ended up being for most of the troops based in WI. Dedicated 5TB for it. Did it for 4-5 years.

Then that evolved to being a server for my own cheapness.

Roughly 1TB in HD movies, another in DVD movies. No downloads, all rips. Streamed to PS3 using Universal Media server.
Another 2.5+ TB for all of my pictures/videos (I shoot RAW, and each picture is about 27MB. one minute of HD Uncompressed video is 9.3GB). Photography/video editing is one of my many hobbies, and I take it seriously.
900GB in Music.
Over 1TB in various software backups (CAD/CAM/Windows/Image/video editing/etc) I don't have a single media based software package, and haven't for years.
Zero porn now. (Part of why I didn't need to do it anymore for the boys. Youporn!)

AAAAAAAAAnnnnndddd I can access all of my files anywhere on the planet with an internet connection on any of my devices. Even in the god forsaken People's Republic of Korea if I wanted. My files aren't uploaded to google. FUCK Apple and iTunes. None of my data is on a cloud server. All mine, and all private.

I have no cable TV. I'm my own movie/music database. And then, I'm a gamer. Ever heard of Xplane 10? That simulator is 100GB in world data. Titanfall is 30GB now. There goes a 120GB hard drive in a single simulator if you include a standard 30GB windows 7 install.

You have your pc needs. I have mine. And man, some of our troops are into some seriously kinky stuff. (Of course I approve of that)

[Fusion]

Ah ok. I always thought saving movies was kind of retarded since I have good sources for download on demand and unlimited bandwidth.
I used to save eveything I downloaded like 10 years ago, but shit gets out of date quick, quality gets better.

[TurboJake]

Yeah. And the biggest thing about having the bigrig with all the storage via VPN is that my laptop and tablet can have next to nothing for storage space. I don't even have a portable hard drive because it's completely unnecessary. Even without a hotspot I just wireless tether to my phone as long as I have reception and BAM! Everything at my disposal. Added bonus is being able to remote desktop to do the raw processing power applications such as NX/Solidworks/Autocad/Photoshop/etc. From anywhere.

So to sum it up.
Bigrig = Access anywhere. Remote desktop. VPN. A computing and storage leviathan that I can access and control from anywhere.

Everything else = web browsing/accessing bigrig to do anything.

Occasionally I run into multi-monitor issues. But most of the time it's okay.

[Q5Quint]

Kingston 120gb ssd here- was on sale at staples for about $100 and I thought 'why not'.

I have 2-3 steam games and windows on there. Boots/opens stuff easily 2x as fast as before. Been working great maybe 6 months with no issues.

Goat simulator, space engineers, eve online. Depending on how drunk I might be at the time.

[Wschnitz]

Dont get how people could live on less then 1TB. Im about to refresh my 1 year old build with another 1TB hard drive or two and a 780ti me thinks.

[F34R]

Got a new Samsung 128gb SSD, my old one took a DUMP on me and left me high and dry for a week.

[RedReplicant]

Got a 2010 13" Macbook Pro with a Corsair F115 SSD and a 500GB WD HDD in the optical bay. Been running that setup for two years flawlessly.

Got a 2010 27" i5 iMac with a 120GB Samsung 840 Evo in the optical bay... been running that for a year flawlessly.