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On Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 3:52:10 AM UTC-7, DMP wrote:
> On 3/18/2015 7:40 PM, Ross Ridge wrote:
> > Justisaur  <just...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Seriously, get an SSD.  It's amazing.  If you use Intel Smart Response you
> >> don't need to worry about what you're putting where, and seems to be nearly
> >> fast for most things.  It's not just for booting.  It's every time you load
> >> anything.  It's not just a little improvement, it's like night and day.
> >> I'd skimp on anything else to get an SSD.
> > I wouldn't necessarily skimp on everything else, but yah an SSD makes a
> > big difference in the overall performance of the PC.  Nothing else make
> > your PC seem faster.  You can get an hard disk as well to keep the price
> > down while still giving you a lot of storage for bulk things like photos
> > and videos.
> >
> > 						Ross Ridge
> >
> Rin mentioned that the SSD's get slower with time due to "the number of 
> writes that slowly damage the memory over time". I didn't want to get in 
> a situation like I had three computers ago. I got a custom built job 
> that came with two IBM "Deathstars" both of which failed. My bad for not 
> doing the research then. I do hold on to my systems for a goodly amount 
> of time, so reliability and longevity are important. The only thing I've 
> ever had failed were disk drives, two IBM's and a Seagate
> 
> I am not familiar with Intel Smart Response, but will familiarize myself 
> with it before any ordering takes place.
> 
> I have confidence in the builder and they will tell me what their 
> experience has been with SSD v. mechanical particularly with their 
> gaming towers. There isn't much difference in the cost of an  250 gb SSD 
> and 1TB WD Black. There also must be a reason why most of the gaming 
> computer builders are adding SSD's to their configurations. The smaller 
> SSD's are getting to be close in price to the larger mechs.
> 
> I appreciate all the help and suggestions. Thanks again.
>

SSD Endurance Experiment:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/03/12/184222/endurance-experiment-kills-six-ssds-over-18-months-24-petabytes

No noticeable slowdown, first to die lasted through 700 TB of writes.

You don't even need a particularly large one to take advantage of ISR.  You do need to make sure your MB, CPU & SSD (Intel only I think) are all compatible with ISR to use it.  There's some other alternatives similar to ISR, but I'm not as familiar with them.  Or you can buy a hybrid drive, which should be similar in performance, but I haven't verified that with research.

On the HD front I'd agree to avoid Seagate.  I prefer WD, but didn't see any particular issues with Hitachi when we were using them at work.  WD has had a couple major blunders over the years with certain drives, but in general has been more reliable.

- Justisaur