Solid State Drive worth it?

[froggyboy604]

Is the computer speed increase, faster start up time, and electricity savings of a solid state drive worth the high price tag?

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I think it might be worth it if you have very few files on your drive, already have a large hard drive like a 500GB to 2TB hard drive for storing your files on your computer and don't plan on installing hundreds of programs on your computer. Plus, you are looking for a way to quickly speed up your computer startup times, program start up times, and better battery life and power savings. They also don't require disk defrags like mechanical hard drives.

 

[iron hide]

I would just install my OS on SSD instead of installing things like MS Office, videos, songs and pics. If you are a hardcore gamer, then you might also want to install it on SSD as well. But I would just buy SSD big enough to install my OS only.

 

[PoBoy]

Yes, it's worth it. And that's exactly what I did iron hide. I only put Windows and whatever main game I'm playing at the time on it and it's lightning fast. It reminds me of the performance boost of years ago when upgrading from 128M of RAM to 512 was mind blowing 😀

 

[Deleted member 1609]

It's definitely worth it for people who game or do other resource-consuming things.

 

[JamesD31]

The way SSD is being used by computer savvy people is for quick loads of certain things. Like mentioned, things like your OS will be put on a small SSD so that way you can boot up a ton lot quicker, while data and such will be on a normal HD