SSD (Solid state drives)

[DJ Garybaldy]

Just upgraded my music drive to an SSD and so far the performance is amazing.

RadioDJ is running like butter off a hot knife. My PC will hopefully all be SSD drives soon. Ditching the 2TB hard drive for a 1TB SSD so I can run my VM off it.

The 2TB drive has been dragging a lot lately which is strange as its less than 2 years old.

Yes we've looked at any pitfalls but as I hardly ever put VMware into a saved state it makes no difference.

Oh how I wish SSD drives had been a thing 20 years ago. I just LOVE technology when it makes life simpler.

The prices of SSD has come down in price its something like £100 for a 1TB drive from what I've seen

[stevewa]

Don't worry, it will be even cheaper after Boris crashes the economy 

[Vanlen]

RadioDJ is running like butter off a hot knife.

Great stuff DJ Gary!

[Calypso]

Just upgraded my music drive to an SSD and so far the performance is amazing.

RadioDJ is running like butter off a hot knife. My PC will hopefully all be SSD drives soon. Ditching the 2TB hard drive for a 1TB SSD so I can run my VM off it.

The 2TB drive has been dragging a lot lately which is strange as its less than 2 years old.

Yes we've looked at any pitfalls but as I hardly ever put VMware into a saved state it makes no difference.

Oh how I wish SSD drives had been a thing 20 years ago. I just LOVE technology when it makes life simpler.

The prices of SSD has come down in price its something like £100 for a 1TB drive from what I've seen

Yep, I know the experience about a year of 4, 5 ago. You got a SATA or PCIe one? The latter even fly more...

[DJ Garybaldy]

SATA at the moment I've got 2 x240GB in the box at present.

I've been on SSD for my operating system (Ubuntu Studio) for quite sometime and that flies we had a spare drive after buying a new system for my partner so I said Id have it for my music files.

I take it the PCI ones are what slot into the PCI slots? Maybe something to consider in a few years when I upgrade this computer.
This is the most powerful computer i've ever owned (16GB) with SSD added its amazingly quick and stable.

[stevewa]

M.2 is the term for the gum sticks that plug directly into the motherboard

SATA SSDs have a maximum speed of 600 MB per second, while M.2 PCIe cards can hit 4 GB per second.

[Calypso]

M.2 is the term for the gum sticks that plug directly into the motherboard

SATA SSDs have a maximum speed of 600 MB per second, while M.2 PCIe cards can hit 4 GB per second.

Correct but caveat is that M2 is only the form factor. You also have M2 SSDs that use SATA and thus have the lower speed.