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Just a heads up, 1TB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5 SSD is $249.99 right now on amazon.com. Cheapest its ever been by like $50.

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E1T0B-AM/dp/B00OBRFFAS/

Sure there are better SSDs out there, but by comparison the 850 Pro 1TB is $413 and the lesser brand 1TBs are all only minimally cheaper at $220+.

 

[aeolist]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820249078&ignorebbr=1

if you have an NVMe slot on your motherboard this is probably the best SSD deal this year

 

[2002whitegt]

I'm so mad that I missed out on the 750gb for $100. Tried adding it into the cart on Thursday and it was 181.

Well at least I can hope for something on Monday, and if the trend continues, SSD's will just keep getting cheaper.

 

[robotrock]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820249078&ignorebbr=1

if you have an NVMe slot on your motherboard this is probably the best SSD deal this year

Why? Is it much faster than the crucial SSD?

 

[Extollere]

Are SSDs more, or less, reliable than traditional drives? For some reason I remember hearing they were somewhat unreliable, but that may have been earlier models.

 

[painey]

Are SSDs more, or less, reliable than traditional drives? For some reason I remember hearing they were somewhat unreliable, but that may have been earlier models.

they are more reliable. no moving parts.

 

[aeolist]

Why? Is it much faster than the crucial SSD?

NVMe drives use PCIe instead of SATA. PCIe is about 1 gigabyte/second per lane and most motherboards use 4 lanes for an NVMe slot. max SATA3 bandwidth is 600 megabytes/second.

plextor drive:

Max Sequential Read
Up to 2300 MBps

Max Sequential Write
Up to 1300 MBps

4KB Random Read
Up to 260,000 IOPS

4KB Random Write
Up to 250,000 IOPS

crucial drive:

Max Sequential Read
Up to 530 MBps

Max Sequential Write
Up to 510 MBps

4KB Random Read
Up to 92,000 IOPS

4KB Random Write
Up to 83,000 IOPS

 

[Dandy Lyin]

I bought 2 of the Crucial MX300 750GB SSDs from Amazon.ca on Thursday. They were one of the daily deals at $134CAD/ea. I had been looking at the 1TB model the day before for $324 and luckily saw the 750GB on sale before I ordered it.

 

[Big Green Anus]

Whatsu the average cost of a 1tb SSD? I'm worried that my current 1tb HDD might feel due to it's mechanical parts, so I would like to upgrade to a SSD.

Edit: Still too pricey for me, but prices got significantly down compared to the past 3 years.

 

[mrklaw]

I had a 120GB SSD as a boot drive for a while, then jumped on a 1TB evo in an Amazon lovely but fills up quickly. I also have a 1TB HDD which I'd really like to replace with a nice 2TB

Will never buy a new computer or laptop without an SSD now. Recently bought a Lenovo USFF PC purely as a plex server, and made sure to customise it with an SSD. That is less important for speed, but I also appreciate the lack of noise when a HDD is spinning up and seeking

 

[Skux]

For you guys running out of space, use SteamMover. Makes it easy to move the folders while still being able to play the game on HDD.

 

[JoeyJungle]

Whatsu the average cost of a 1tb SSD? I'm worried that my current 1tb HDD might feel due to it's mechanical parts, so I would like to upgrade to a SSD.

Edit: Still too pricey for me, but prices got significantly down compared to the past 3 years.

~$250

 

[Bisnic]

I bought 2 of the Crucial MX300 750GB SSDs from Amazon.ca on Thursday. They were one of the daily deals at $134CAD/ea. I had been looking at the 1TB model the day before for $324 and luckily saw the 750GB on sale before I ordered it.

The same SSDs that are now 228$? Damn. What are the chances I can find something like that now?

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01DUNLMUU/

 

[Agent_ShortBus]

Yeah I've been rocking two 1tb SSD's for two years and there's no way I could go back to normal hdd.

 

[XBP]

If anyone wants to buy an SSD and they have an m.2 slot in their pc then wait for the new Samsung evo960 drives. They're very affordable and extremely fast.

 

[Hesemonni]

I'm still kicking myself for missing out the 750Gb Crucial deal :/

 

[NXGamer]

4k videos (Especially if they 60fps) gonna be rough on everything

You don't know the half of it, I have well over £2k in storage space with 2X 2TB SSD drives in my capture and editing system plus my other pc and laptops...storage at these speeds is needed but damn expensive.

 

[AndyMoogle]

I love my 500GB SSD but hate having to "demote" games to my 2TB hard drive just to keep my SSD from filling up.

I've heard that once you start hitting the 70% storage threshold on an SSD, performance starts to drop. Is there truth to this?

Yes, it is true. The performance drops drastically if you fill it up. Some SSDs combats this by having dedicated space that can't be used by the user.

 

[AstroNut325]

OP, can I have your old drive? I'm still in the stone ages with a platter drive only.

 

[rtcn63]

Xmas is around the corner and SDD's will generally get cheaper in time. I wouldn't fret if you missed out.

 

[Bornstellar]

...unless you get into video editing then suddenly even 2tb of SSD space isn't nearly as much as it seems.

Yep. My 1TB SSD feels extremely small.

 

[Tenck]

...unless you get into video editing then suddenly even 2tb of SSD space isn't nearly as much as it seems.

I got two 1TB 850 Pro and they're almost full. I should buy more SSDs.

 

[WetWaffle]

I ended up buying an 480 gb ocz trion for a ssd since it was 20 dollars off. Why are ssds so expensive in the first place?

 

[J3ffro]

I built my first PC a month ago, had planned on getting a 250g SSD or M.2 drive with a 2TB storage spinner. Everyone told me to go at least 500 gigs -- far and away the best money I spent.

Well, okay, maybe not better than the money spent on the 1070, but still, the right move. Not having the play the delete/install game on a daily basis is very nice.

 

[rtcn63]

I ended up buying an 480 gb ocz trion for a ssd since it was 20 dollars off. Why are ssds so expensive in the first place?

Relatively new tech + significant improvement in reliability and speed over mechanical hard drives

 

[mavericktopgun]

I have a Samsung EVO 1TB and a Samsung EVO 500 GB in my Gaming Laptop and it's bloody awesome.

 

[Cartman86]

Speaking of getting that SSD. I purchased one as well and decided to span all my SSD's into one (not in RAID) for easier management. Interestingly nothing from the Windows Store will install to this spanned drive. I keep getting a generic error. Two other drives (SSD and HDD) both work fine. I have to download there and manually move them to the spanned drives. Anyone else see this? Could be for another reason and the spanning is just a coincidence I guess.

 

[aeolist]

Speaking of getting that SSD. I purchased one as well and decided to span all my SSD's into one (not in RAID) for easier management. Interestingly nothing from the Windows Store will install to this spanned drive. I keep getting a generic error. Two other drives (SSD and HDD) both work fine. I have to download there and manually move them to the spanned drives. Anyone else see this? Could be for another reason and the spanning is just a coincidence I guess.

it probably has to do with the driver for whatever storage controller or software device is running that array. you might also want to make sure it's passing TRIM commands to the SSDs because not all arrays will do that.

 

[canocha]

....anndd i bought a Crucial MX300 (525GB)!

God dammit Black Friday and these threads!

Amazon Spain - 94€

 

[Later Alligator]

2 X 1 TB crucial m550s in my pc

never going back

 

[Oblivion]

...unless you get into video editing then suddenly even 2tb of SSD space isn't nearly as much as it seems.

This is not what I wanted to hear before building my new PC. :/

 

[Finaika]

This is not what I wanted to hear before building my new PC. :/

Get the Samsung 850 EVO 4TB version.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Over the years, I slowly accumulated small SSDs. So now I just stack the things in my gaming PC and scatter my game installs across them. I've got 2x Samsung 830 Pro 256 GB, 1x Crucial MX100 240 GB, and 1x Samsung 950 Pro NVme 512 GB in my gaming PC at the moment. It's a bit dumb having 4 Steam directories but hey, whatever works I guess.

My laptop has a single 512 GB Samsung 840 Pro. I might stick the 750 GB SSD I got from the OP's BF deal in my laptop and move the 840 Pro to my gaming PC because fuck it, MOAR SSDs

I like Samsung and Crucial SSDs.

Game installs being like 50-60 GB these days make mincemeat out of SSDs, the size of game installs this gen has become insane because a single Blu-ray holds 50 GB so devs are like let's make all games 50 GB in size.

 

[Jiraiza]

Get the Samsung 850 EVO 4TB version.

Can I expect this to be affordable by 2020, assuming we're not all dead by then?

 

[Rats Off To Ya]

I recently added a 1TB on top of the 256GB I was using for years. It's really wonderful. Whereas before I was constantly juggling which games I had installed at once, since buying the new one I haven't had to delete a single thing. I will eventually, I'm sure, but I imagine it will be a lot easier to decide what to cut when the time comes. The smaller SSD was (and still is) my system drive, as well, while the new one is 100% for game installs.

 

[reKon]

Yeah that was a really good deal. I had already hopped on the 960 GB sandisk earlier this year: https://slickdeals.net/f/8919803-ad...ing-for-all?src=SiteSearchV2_SearchBarV2Algo1


My original plan was to wait until 1 TB drives all regularly hit $150, but I just had to bite because getting this much storage for so cheap had been rare. I might get another 1 TB, high performance SSD in a few years when prices go down more and move the 1 TB SSD to that I have now to a console.

 

[dark10x]

4 or 8 TB magnetic drive alongside SSD?
It's not like you need massive read speeds for video encoding, you're more likely to be CPU(GPU?) limited there...

Yeah, that's right. I have 20tb total with 2tb of SSD. The SSDs are necessary for lossless video, though, since the mechanical drives sometimes cause frames to drop during capture. I don't do everything lossless thankfully but that's necessary for FPS analysis.

You don't know the half of it, I have well over £2k in storage space with 2X 2TB SSD drives in my capture and editing system plus my other pc and laptops...storage at these speeds is needed but damn expensive.

Ha ha, NX knows the pain too. 4K is especially intense.

 

[dreamfall]

Hoping for a Cyber Monday deal!

 

[dallow_bg]

I can't even go back to standard sata SSD now.
NVMe SSD are 3x+ their speed. Feels so good.

 

[OnionPowder]

Can I expect this to be affordable by 2020, assuming we're not all dead by then?

Probably

 

[Eusis]

...unless you get into video editing then suddenly even 2tb of SSD space isn't nearly as much as it seems.

If I had the dumb luck to win the Powerball one of my stupid fantasies would be to build a PC packed with 4 tb SSDs. Fuck it, I want absurd amounts of stupid fast storage.

 

[OnionPowder]

If I had the dumb luck to win the Powerball one of my stupid fantasies would be to build a PC packed with 4 tb SSDs. Fuck it, I want absurd amounts of stupid fast storage.

Go for 4 of these

http://gizmodo.com/samsungs-16tb-ssd-is-now-an-actual-thing-people-can-buy-1762536707

 

[Finaika]

I can't even go back to standard sata SSD now.
NVMe SSD are 3x+ their speed. Feels so good.

Does this makes a difference in games?

 

[Mupod]

still shopping around for the system drive for the PC I'm about to build. I really want one of the samsung 960 m.2 drives but they don't seem to be available anywhere.

 

[Pestilence11]

I'm doing okay with my 250 gig Samsung EVO 850. I had to mod the BIOS to unlock SATA 3 but with that and under volting while overclocking this 2012 laptop is pretty damn quick still.

 

[Spiral Insanity]

My new 1TB drive for my PS4 Pro is even sweeter. Every game I've ever bought now sits 1 click and a few seconds away from launch.

That's not that many games if 1TB is enough!

 

[Dandy Lyin]

The same SSDs that are now 228$? Damn. What are the chances I can find something like that now?

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01DUNLMUU/

Yeah, the deal was pretty amazing. Check on Monday to see if they put them back up, and check Newegg.ca as well.

 

[dallow_bg]

Does this makes a difference in games?

Loading is much faster if that's what you mean.

 

[cyberheater]

I can't even go back to standard sata SSD now.
NVMe SSD are 3x+ their speed. Feels so good.

I had no idea that it was that much faster.

 

[DMTripper]

SSD life is the best life.

I play Arma 3 a lot and I can be in the chopper heading for the AO by the time my mate on a standard drive is getting in the server browser!

Fuck loading screens.