Ssd & os

[MrJim]

That's a hefty premium to pay! I think i'll stick to the original idea.

Yep, I think the Crucial range offer the best value vs performance at the moment...

[Noxvayl]

The warranty of the drive indicates how confident a company is about the quality of the product that they have produced. HDDs used to have 10 year warranties and some even longer. I expect SSDs to have 10 year warranties as standard soon. I suspect the only reason it hasn't been done before is because the companies didn't want to deal with returns that long after selling a product.

Buying a standard SSD can work out well so long as you take care of it. They work differently to HDDs so you need to make sure you have spare space on it at all times to give it area to use for wear leveling which impacts both performance and durability of the drives. Anandtech covered it a while ago in this article, still applies to SSDs today because they work in the same manner.

My 256GB Crucial m4 has only 200GB available for me to use to make sure I give it the best chance to keep itself functioning at peak performance without wearing out cells too quickly.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6489/playing-with-op
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3690/t...rformance-loss

[Butrider]

I bought a SSD just for my OS but never used half of it so now it's games+software as opposed to just software

[mrham4321]

Depends on the budget I recommend SSDs for any casual user now, as they don't need TBs of storage and it improves the snappiness and feel.