Is it worth it to buy an ssd?

is it worth it to buy a ssd ?

 

In general, especially if you're moving from a mechanical based HDD, yes.

 

That depends on what side of SSD your looking at and what you are doing with it.
1. Main drive
2. Backup drive
3. Would NVMe SSD be better?

If your looking for storage capacity HDD is still king here. I use a NVMe as Boot drive and HDD as storage for their capacity. Until SSD can match price and capacity of HDD they will still be out of reach for most.

So what are you looking to do with the SSD?

 

Unless you're on a really tight budget, nowadays HDDs and magnetic storage are for archiving data. 3D XPoint and NAND have no moving parts and are therefore way faster at accessing data, making your system snappier without emitting any noise like a rotational drive would. It really is a night & day difference, so while you may not find storing all your data on SSDs worth it due to cost, you should store your OS and most frequently used applications on solid state.

 

It is perhaps the most observable upgrade you'll ever make to your PC for day to day use.

You'll appreciate faster boot times, responsiveness and even slightly better battery life.

 

Not if they are using a Desktop here-battery life won't matter.

 

Sure, but the faster I/O cant be ignored

 

It doesn't make sense when you want to build a retro system.

Jokes aside, Windows 10 is made for SSDs and usually runs awfully poorly on HDDs.
Also I recommend to make a clean install Windows 10 on your SSD (unplug the SATA cables from your HDDs before to prevent Win10 stuff to be stored on them, like the recovery), because Win10 is optimising the installation and the whole OS based on the drives inside the PC.

Greetings,
Logan

 

Internal Yes. External, stick with HDD.

 

True but if you want fast NVMe will be extremely fast

That's misleading at best W10 will run and work on HDD. And I don't see any performance hit unless your talking about Gaming laptop then that would be different.

This happens when using NVMe drives...I know I experience this already before I found out unplug all HDD or SSD and only leave NVMe when fresh install and then after it's done plug the other drives back in.

 

That last part last longer is a double edge sword. Not all SSD are created equal and when it fail everything is gone with HDD you can still get the data. So let's not give bad information here. SSD are cheaper assuming your driver is under 500gb start going bigger and the cost rises as oppose to HDD.

 

1) This is more like, "with HDD you *might* be able to get the data"

2) Regardless, always, always, always make backups and have a good backup strategy, this makes the loss of any drive a moot point.

 

With proper backups, it is a moot point. However, data recovery from a SSD isn’t really a thing, whereas on HDDs it’s certainly possible.

 

That is right Jarhead, without proper backup forget any recovery options. This is why I have multiple HDD for archives and one SSD for image backup of the O/S drive so if it fails I just pop in new one and reboot and get right back working. I never say anything onto the main NVMe drive but onto other HDD to prevent data loss.

 

Short and to the point.....

YES

 

I am another vote for "Yes." At least on the boot drive, depending on budget concerns. Upgraded a desktop and laptop a few years back with 256 Gb SATA SSDs. No regrets. Looking into NVMe boot drive for my next laptop purchase.

 

Anything that's less than 100 usd and is a superior upgrade is always worth buying for.

500gb has been hovering around 85 usd for a long while.

 

In every aspect SSD is life changing. I have SSD in both my gaming computer, gaming laptop, and work laptop. For boot ups, load screens, and running CAD software I have noticed significant speed increases. You will see a difference and with the deals going especially now the price to value is excellent.

 

Don't buy no-name cheap SSD's if reliability is your goal. There are a ton of really bad SSD's out there and you can just check feedback for long term issues. And with all the recent firesale price dumping lately, best off sticking with (newer) Adata, Samsung, Western Digital, Crucial (Micron) and Intel for a shortlist.
adata can be very hit or miss with some older models being very unreliable. The Adata XPG SX8200 seems to be as fast as a samsung 970 evo, if you can find it on sale it may be a decent choice.

 

Yes, but why not buy both? The best SSD you can afford and the largest HDD? boot/storage