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Is an SSD worth it?

aalias1

aalias1

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Is an SSD worth it? Considering buying one..
Does the improvement matter for botting?
 
no big improvement for botting, but still worth to buy one for OS drive and little more for game, 128G should be enough, huge performance increase for OS load up and start up program and game
 
tonytx said:
no big improvement for botting, but still worth to buy one for OS drive and little more for game, 128G should be enough, huge performance increase for OS load up and start up program and game
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It is worth in general, little for botting. Win7 loads in 5-6 seconds (sata3). I use ssds for oses and online games.
 
people should nowadays be being an SSD for their primary (90 - 128GB) and a big secondary drive for downloads ^^, maybe even a hybrid.... when SSD was released it was not worth it but 3 years after that the SSD came down to normal levels so acceptable prices.
 
A SSD was the best investment I ever done :-) Have have Diablo 3 and Windows on my SSD. No Diablo 3 lags ! NEVER :D I recommend write/read min. 250mb
 
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Worth it in my opinion. I upgraded from a 7200 Samsung HD103SJ and the improvement was totally apparent. Faster load times wasn't my worry, but the actual loading of in game elements was important to me, especially since I have more than 1 bot. Maybe my old hard drive was faulty, but whenever I made my first game and tried to WP somewhere, there would always be game lag (friends reported this too, back when I actually played the game). Things like that are all HDD issues, switching to SSD, game is always smooth.
 
I was using sata II hdds for like 2 years of botting. Then i switched to ssd, I'm very happy with it. If you have restart your bots it takes less time, windows boots like in 3 seconds and my bots seem to be more stable on ssd drives. +1 for ssd
 
An SSD is totally justified now that the prices have fallen so much

The thing to remember is you are probably going to want both SSD and mechanical drives, Theres a huge benefit to putting your OS/Games on the SSD but practically no benefit at all in putting media files like mp3s/movies onto one. Media files are streamed off the disk at a set rate from beginning to end which is well within the capabilities of a mechanical drive, so if you have many terabytes of horse porn its not worth paying the premium of SSD to store them

However SSDs are fantastic as fast random access which is why they are so good, I dont know about your PC but my windows folder contains over 100,000 different files and having your OS and programs on SSD can really make everything seem a heck of alot snappier, its not mechanically moving a drive head back and forth over the disk surface trying to get to all the various files needed, you click a button and programs are loaded so fast that you've barely lifted your finger from clicking

Realistically most people would probably want to aim for a 128gb drive, windows 7 takes about 30gb, that leaves 100gb for your apps and games.

edit: go for bigger if you want to run VMs ofc as those could sit on the SSD
 
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