How many SSD's do you own?


How many SSD's do you own?  

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  1. 1. How many SSD's do you own?

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    • All of my computers have an SSD in them.
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Only one, if I only count those I actually went out and bought as a replacement for a spinning drive.  Otherwise, 3--the other two being what ships with my Surface RT and Pro tablets.

 

The one I bought definitely extended the life of the machine I put it in, but the Surface Pro took over that machine's role.  These days I just don't have the time/energy/motivation to take apart the older system, grab the SSD, and put it into another system I use.  So it's kinda collecting dust.  The other machine I use all the time is a VM host running about 20 virtual machines, so it's on 24/7, and wouldn't really benefit from faster boot times.

4. 

  • 512GB in rMBP
  • 256GB (Samsung 840 Pro) + 240GB (Kingston v300) in main desktop
  • 250GB (Samsung 840) in spare laptop, usually used as a media streamer

 

Always painful to use a computer without an SSD now, I get so impatient  :p

 

edit: Actually, 5, I still have a 128GB Samsung 830 somewhere 

5 in my main desktop - 1 OS, 1 for various stuff (usually toss videos and stuff on it when I plan on editing a bunch), 3 in RAID0 for games n such

2 in my old gaming machine (now a file server....really need to sell it) - 1 OS and 1 other stuff

1 in main laptop

1 in Xbox 360

1 in HTPC

so 10 total currently :P Looking at getting another for my main desktop for TV recording - seems to push the mechanical HDD a lot when recording 2 or 3 shows while commercial detection app is processing them live

0. Cause the cost of them for how little storage you get makes them a bit of a joke.

 

They're not really intended for storing a lot. It makes more sense to put your OS and main applications on it for much faster performance. It's a very good upgrade.

Keep your other files on a regular mechanical HD though.

They either replace the dead controller, fix the firmware, or replace bad flash chips typically.

 

Or they replace nothing because the user had no idea what they were doing and just sent a working drive back ;-)

Or they replace nothing because the user had no idea what they were doing and just sent a working drive back ;-)

I came close to that one.  The firmware wouldn't update, though, so it wasn't so much that I had no idea what I was doing as that they had no idea what they were doing.

 

Ironically, the replacement drive had a dead controller, so I sent that back too.

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