iceballfunela wrote:
I watched some of Linus's videos on LinusTechTips and he says that SSDs are worth it and they are super fast, super reliable blah blah... but, other than all of this talking and blabbering, can someone tell me, in their own experience whether they really help in everyday tasks. TIA!!
Some idea here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Comparison_of_SSD_with_hard_disk_drivesSome plusses and minuses for SSD compared to HDDs:
+ Considerably faster (the "2 second Win8 boot up" are not quite a good comparison though, as Win8 fast boot is using partial hibernate mode).
+ uses less power and less heat
+ no mechanical parts, so if you move around your laptop while it is running, it isn't as prone to mechanical failures like that
- much higher cost per gigabyte, and the biggest SSDs are still quite small in capacity
- if you tend to use the SSD heavily, SSDs wear faster, it is their nature.
- if there is a failure with disk, with SSDs the failures tend to be more catastrophic with a total data loss than with HDDs (depending on the failure of course).
So if you are unhappy with your HDD read/write speeds, move around your PC a lot (while it is running) and want your hard disks use less power, choose SSD.
If you want bigger capacity (cheaper price per megabyte) and data storage reliability, keep your HDD. Naturally you should still make backups of important data also from your HDDs, so maybe that is not such a big issue.
I still opt mostly for HDDs even as my primary drives due to their bigger capacity.
