How can HDDs even compete?
Prices
>>52281478
It... It's a p-placebo!
>>52281478
how do sata express and m.2 stack up and pci-e?
They cant. Theyre slightly cheaper per gb but its not worth it.
The faggots wtih 4tb of shitty movies they dont watch are just hoarders.
I have a 500gb ssd and its awesome. And I dont need to worry about mechanical failure.
Increase the RPM
>>52281478
What HDD is 5,200? Aren't most cheap HDDs at 5,400?
I mean, it would still get its shit smacked by any SSD out there, PCI-e or SATA, but I haven't seen a 5,200 RPM before.
Maybe I'm just an asshole, I don't know.
>>52281534
I thought 5400RPM drives were gone?
They're all 7200rpm now.
>>52281519
Now you only have to worry about sudden and unpredictable failures and write limits.
>>52281601
Yea in about 15 years.
By then I will have a 5tb ssd replacement.
>>52281519
> tfw 256GB and no problems
All I need is a 1TB external drive for backups and movies, I still have 50GB free on my OS X partition and I have a 32GB Winblows partition with 17GB free after removing the botnet and bloat.
>>52281566
wrong
>laptops
>>52281478
>5200rpm
What aborted baby HDD is this? A notebook 2.5" gen 1 SATA?
Most are 5400/7200.
Vruuum
price for gb
why would I spend hundreds of dollars in ssd's just to store all my shit?
>>52281566
Man I remember when 3200 was the low-end and 7200 was high end. That wasn't even that long ago god damn.
>>52281478
What program is that? That table showing read speeds for various video encoding settings is neat
Not at my computer right now but my hdd (3tb 7200rpm $90) does 150MBs reads. Would still do hdd tho, my 240gb ssd is still at $80.
>>52281527
Balls to the walls baby, 10,000 RPM's Of Pure unadulterated goodness
>>52281478
It's all irrelevant because your brain can only process data at 24mb/s
>>52281519
>slightly cheaper
2TB SSD = 600 USD
2TB HDD = 60 USD
>It's just a zero, Anon! What are you, poor?
>>52281519
>mechanical failure.
Nope, just random NAND failure.
>>52281478
>49.7MBs
That's terrible even for an HDD.
>>52281527
ive been using raptors since the 1st gen 36 gig noise maker. my desktop still uses a 500 gig and i still swear by them for spinning disks
they are great drives, but they dont hold a candle to the ssds i put in my laptops
>>52281534
most were 5400, but like 1 or 2 companies used 5200 in some models of their drives. when i worked as a tech a long time ago i saw them, but i dont remember it anymore
>>52282553
I'm still using. 4200rpm hdd.
>>52281478
So after all that bragging about MUH PCIE SSD, it isn't even that much better than the 850 evo sata ssd that I put into my macbook.
And the top 5200 rpm hard drive is obviously over USB 2.0
>>52281601
retard alert
>>52283073
>5400 RPM
>>52283226
It's 5400 RPM over USB 2.0, the drive itself can go faster.
>>52283226
>7200rpm is more than three times faster.
>>52281478
I don't even care about the fact that HDDs are slower. The more important advantages that SSDs have is that they are silent and consume way less energy.
>>52283360
>silent
this nigger never heard of electrical noise haha
>>52283360
I'd argue that silence is a much better reason than energy consumption, unless you're using an ultraportable.
>>52283360
>consume way less energy.
this REALLY depends on the model and general performance characteristics.
enterprise PCIe/U.2 SSDs can suck down 20-25W (for massively higher BW than a HDD, but still)
>>52283205
his seems really slow for some reason
I'm thinking of getting one. Is it worthy to get an ssd just for the OS and programs? Will it improve anything else besides that?
I don't want to buy an 120 gb if I can get 2 TB for the same price. I don't care a lot about boot times.
>>52283477
Yes, using a system with an SSD for the OS is noticeably better than using a HDD, ofc the more applications you put on it the better though.
I'd suggest at least the OS, your browser, and anything you use for work (text editor, office suite, media editing suite, etc)
The order of importance is probably;
>OS
>Applications for work
>Browser
>Commonly used applications
>Games
>...
>media
>>52283468
So does yours.
Any PCIe SSD with respect for itself goes above 2GB/s
>>52283505
It won't make it faster to opening files on the other HDD, though, right?
This is why I'm mostly concerned about.
>>52282527
>steam drive
>games drive
what the fuck?
>>52283530
F: is actually not steam
A: is actually not itunes
>>52283528
Most likely it won't, unless the application you're using to load those files also needs to load its own files on the SSD as well in the process.
But the time to open files from a hdd is minuscule anyway and doesn't really gain benefit from being on an SSD in my experience anyway, since loading a file is already an interruption of workflow, the difference between a .1 and .5second load is negligible compared to say waiting .1 vs .5 seconds for a window to open, if that makes sense.
>>52283477
120 is so small its not worth it. save another weeks allowance and at least have some self respect to get at least 256.
you shouldnt even be paying more than $120 for a 512 gig. if that is too much then dont bother considering you dont care about shit like boot times.
>>52283528
Of fucking course it won't.
>500GB SSD for OS/software/temporary files
>HDDs or NAS for storage/archiving
>>52283573
Oh also I should add most files I load aren't going to max out a HDD r/w speed anyway, they'd be CPU dependent
>>52281566
>>52282182
even most laptops now a days has a 7200rpm hard drive
>>52283422
My crucial SSD uses 1.6A according to the sticker
>>52283530
nonsteam games?
>SSD
>RPM
kek
>that feel when
why live?
>>52281709
how did you remove bloatware and botnet
I'm building a rig for my gf. Should I get her an ssd? She just uses word, chrome and VLC for movies. It seems like a waste of money for her.
>>52283699
Do the build and then if theres money left in the budget get one.
Or don't because she's a woman and wouldn't notice anyway and it'll be full of spyware and malware in a week.
>>52283634
electrons spin faster than light , noob
>>52283699
>$50
>1tb 7200rpm SATAIII HDD
>$500
>1tb SSD
I don't know anon, maybe if you want to spend three grand on an email machine.
>>52283699
Does she turn her computer off after using it ?
If so, she would probably like to have an SSD.
>Disk IO as a bottleneck
You running a server or are you one of those faggots that wastes $100 to get 2 seconds faster boot?
>>52283820
>being this much of a shill
a 7200rpm SATAIII HDD takes ~30 seconds to boot for windows and far less for proper operating systems.
just because you wasted money on an SSD for le faster boot times doesn't mean you should meme other people into your buyer's regret.
>>52283843
But it's still a perfectly reasonable thing to improve with an SSD, no one likes waiting for boot
30 second boot would make me rip my hair out, boot into arch in under 5 seconds on my machine.
>>52283843
>Uptime: 19:15:14:53
To be honest I couldn't give less of a shit about my boot times. Personally I got an SSD for the sake of not waiting for other things, such as Photoshop's slow ass startup.
>>52283853
You must not have been alive when it took more than ten minutes to boot up.
>>52283853
>30 seconds to boot on a modern OS like W10
kek
>>52283863
I was, but just as I got used to every other change in technology I got used to and prefer faster boots now.
When I was learning to drive we used a big fuck off book instead of a gps, I'm still going to whine like a child when the GPS doesn't work and I have to use a map.
>>52283401
0/10
>>52283870
why are you quoting me?
>>52283870
W10 boots in 7 seconds on an SSD
W7 boots in 5 seconds
W8 boots in 6 seconds
>>52281478
Rate my speeds guise.
>tfw 10yo Maxtor has faster read than 3yo Seagate
Should I blame the USB 2.0 SATA enclosure? I'm using the 2TB HDD as external archive (the others are all internal SATA).
>>52281478
price and capacity...
I use a mixture of both and it's fine and dandy
>>52283923
They're shit familia
>>52283820
No, she doesn't. She keeps it booted up until she doesn't need it anymore.
>>52284028
So is that a yes or a no ?
>>52283863
Oh, the glorious days of Windows 95.
>>52284038
exactly what i was thinking
>>52284038
It is a "no, she doesn't turn it on and off very often".
>>52284005
Dang it.. I paid like 80€ for that 120GB SSD in August 2015. How much did yours cost? I read 150$ on Amazon, maybe I should have bought one too...
>>52284096
~160 USD with a 10% discount on black friday.
I live in Denmark though, things are generally a bit more expensive here than they are in the US.
>>52283843
>30
My win boots in less than 15 on some regular 7200 rpm. It's a fresh install though and I made sure to put the OS in the outermost cilinder.
>>52284058
An SSD probably won't matter that much to her then.
Does Word take a while to open these days ? I haven't used Office in years.
Its pretty easy when no one is constantly loading single programs that measure in the gigabytes
>>52283670
He replaced them with placebo.
>>52284125
oh well that's kinda affordable for me, I'm seriously thinking to go get one tomorrow, I only buy from local stores in Italy so I always pay 10-20% more than amazon, considering that I can get there by walk and there're no shipping costs I'm ok with it.
the needle is all the way in the red
you could give these the 'gamer' title
>>52284126
XPS 8500 in 17s here.
>>52284005
>850 evo 500gb
My niggah. Bought one a few weeks ago. Shits all over my old 830.
>>52281519
>And I dont need to worry about mechanical failure.
if you manage to kill a mechanical drive in a desktop system you should probably just get the fuck off this board
>>52286371
desu, I'm still not sure if I should have gone with two 250GB ones for RAID0 instead of one 500GB.
1GB/s reads would've been nice, and in theory RAID0 would double SSD lifetime (in terms total data written to the array) since each SSD only takes half of the writes.
On the other hand, that would also have meant one SATA port less for storage.
HDDs = the white fuccibois of the hard drive bzns.
>>52286490
I just use it for steam library so i don't think I'd benefit from raid. I'll be upgrading before this thing dies anyway.
>>52281566
iMacs
>>52281519
Good luck trying to securely delete stuff with a SSD thanks to wear-levelling.
Also,
>comparing ssd to a 5200rpm drive
Get a decent 1tb 7200rpm 64mb cache HDD and save your dollars. You wont notice the difference save for a slightly quicker boot.
>>52286548
>You wont notice the difference save for a slightly quicker boot.
Yeah of you only use your PC for gaymen maybe.
reliability
IS there even a point in upgrading from the Samsung 830?
>>52286706
>>52284005
If you need the random read/write performance or any of the new features then yes, otherwise no, your gaymes won't load quicker.
