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  1. thetykester

    thetykester Well-Known Member

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    Thinking of installing one(1TB) how much difference does it make? is it worth it?
     
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    Over a spinning disk drive, it will make a MASSIVE difference, yes.
     
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    thetykester Well-Known Member

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    Do you have one?
     
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    Makes a puddle when it rains. Doesnt help with drainage
     
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    Ha , took me a while, I get it now.
     
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    Make sure your motherboards will support the SSD.
    Check in your BIOS that your motherboard supports AHCI & your SATA interfaces support 6gb speed.
     
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    My technical advice is non existent mate. But I like to contribute if I can. :)
     
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    thetykester Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for that but I built my own computer & it does meet the requirements
     
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    I'm glad you did. Yours was the only post I understood. :)
     
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    Yes, had one for years. Would never go back to spinning disk now.

    My main PC, which has a very high end SSD in it, boots up from button press to windows in under 3 seconds.
     
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    thetykester Well-Known Member

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    OK cheers.
     
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    Make sure you keep a good copy of your drives contents to hand and backup regularly. I have two go belly up on me in the last few months, Western Digital Blue 500GB and a SanDisk 250GB. I have only ever had one spinning hard drive fail on me in 25 years.
     
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    Thinking of getting a Samsung SSD
     
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    SSDs fail far less than Spinning Disk Drives. Don't know what you're doing to them.
     
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    If you have an m.2 slot on your Motherboard, I'd recommend using that. Make sure it's an NVME m.2 though, not SATA m.2
     
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    Indeed it is an M.2 NVME
     
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    Yep, then use that. It won't make a huge difference to real life performance, but it's a lot more aesthetically pleasing and it will make a small difference to performance at least.
     
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    Nothing, they were in a case nicely separated from the mobo and any heat. I have got 10 year old hard drives in the same system so I can't really comment about my other SSD's longevity as I have only had them in for 2 1/2 years.
     
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    Funny, I was thinking of the same upgrade earlier in the week.

    Does anyone know if I'd be able to image a same sized traditional HD onto SSD to save the ball-ache of installing everything again?
     
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    Yes. Western Digital let you download Acronis Clone software if you have a WD drive. Or there's Macrium Reflect which I have also used.
     
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