Whats happened to the loading times?!

TheWetDolphin

TheWetDolphin
LeglessBloke said:
Agree with this! Although you can get Windows 10 with Planet Coaster on a 64GB drive no problem you will start to run out of space rapidly. Once you've experienced SSD speeds you'll want more and more of your programs on it and suddenly 64gb and even 128gb fills up quickly! 240+GB is a nice size, it's not a massive step up in price from the 120GB models and is probably worth it in the long run considering the larger storage space will extend the useful life of the drive.

SSD's are probably one of the single best computer upgrades you can make for the price. I'm still using one of the first generation 64GB sata SSDs that I purchased over ten years ago now and although it's much slower than my other more modern SSD drives, it's still a lot faster than even a 2TB mechanical drive when used as a boot drive in the spare PC!

Some brands to consider: Samsung, Crucial, Intel, Toshiba, Sandisk, Kingston, Western Digital, Corsair, ADATA.
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Thanks for the advice, I'm looking at a Sandisk as that seems to be the cheapest. I really do think that 120GB will be fine for me though, as I only will want to put Windows, Planet Coaster and probably Subnautica on there as these are the only games that take awhile to load. With Planet Coaster only at 7GB and Subnautica at 12GB, I don't think I really need anything bigger tbh. One more question I have though, is it a good idea to put Google Chrome on the SSD? I'm fine with how quick it is on my HDD anyway, but if it doesn't take up much space, I might as well move that too.
 

Ramm

Ramm
TheWetDolphin said:
Thanks for the advice, I'm looking at a Sandisk as that seems to be the cheapest. I really do think that 120GB will be fine for me though, as I only will want to put Windows, Planet Coaster and probably Subnautica on there as these are the only games that take awhile to load. With Planet Coaster only at 7GB and Subnautica at 12GB, I don't think I really need anything bigger tbh. One more question I have though, is it a good idea to put Google Chrome on the SSD? I'm fine with how quick it is on my HDD anyway, but if it doesn't take up much space, I might as well move that too.
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you put your entire OS on it, your entire C:\ drive so that includes program files like google chrome i guess. Then you use your current hard drive as secundary harddrive for files like movies and videos etc

and for some reason windows makes big files sometime so it fills up quickly, so i would really get a 240gb one
 
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Chems

Chems
TheWetDolphin said:
Thanks for the advice, I'm looking at a Sandisk as that seems to be the cheapest. I really do think that 120GB will be fine for me though, as I only will want to put Windows, Planet Coaster and probably Subnautica on there as these are the only games that take awhile to load. With Planet Coaster only at 7GB and Subnautica at 12GB, I don't think I really need anything bigger tbh. One more question I have though, is it a good idea to put Google Chrome on the SSD? I'm fine with how quick it is on my HDD anyway, but if it doesn't take up much space, I might as well move that too.
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Once you have experienced the glorious speeds of SSDs you want MORE. So it is better to 'future-proof' yourself in advance. [big grin]
 

aDOLPHINjoy18

aDOLPHINjoy18
When I got my first custom PC last year, an older friend recommended me to get an SSD. Although it was suppose to come with just a 1TB 7200RPM HDD, it does have a high end i7-6700k processor. At the last minute, I decided to change the system to use only the HDD as backup and have a Kingston Fury HyperX 240GB SSD as primary storage. Earlier this year, I sent the system back to the retailer for an upgrade, to dismantle the HDD from the system and to install a Samsung EV0 850 1TB SSD as primary storage, and to use the Kingston Fury HyperX as secondary storage. I wanted to store everything on the SSD as the benefits of SSD's are huge. And I was running out of room on my 240GB SSD. However with transistors and stuff, SSD's may only last up to 5 or 10 years at best before the performance noticeably dips. M.2 SSD's are A LOT more expensive than SATA SSD's. SSD's are also still more expensive than HDD. Samsung offers a 5 year warranty on the Samsung EV0 850 SSD.

A 240GB SSD is a good start. Enough room for your Windows OS and all those updates Microsoft throws at us. An SSD will get the installation stuff done WAY faster, and I speak from experience. My HP 15-ab222tx white sleek laptop which has a 1TB 5400RPM HDD. When Microsoft does big service updates for Windows 10 which require a restart, it takes such a long time. But doing it on my custom desktop with SSD, it does it so much quicker. SSD's boot up PC's I'd say at least 4x quicker than HDD. And those Windows 10 updates are installed in a fraction of the time it takes my HP laptop (which has an i5-6200U processor). Note when manufacturers quote 128/256/512GB/1TB, that doesn't give you ALL of the stated space. Some of that space in unusable and is restricted to the system or stuff.
 

Chems

Chems
That's not true. An SSD will generally outlive a HDD, easily. Normal consumers read/write less than 10GB a day.
 
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TheWetDolphin

TheWetDolphin
Ramm said:
great news. How much room does your C:\ drive now take up?
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I ended up getting a 500GB SSD (I found one pretty cheap) and use that as my primary storage. It currently takes up 350GB, as I managed to delete a bunch of games that I don't play anymore and I used CCleaner which deleted nearly 50GB off my C:\ drive! If I ever need more space, I'll just hook up my old hard drive as well but at the moment this SSD is doing great :)
 
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