Windows 10: Is an SSD Drive Bad for Gaming?

Really?? I see. I was gonna exchange my 480GB Sandisk SSD for a hybrid. But now I'm just gonna keep it in view of what you said.

Personally, I think the lesser known SSD brands suffer more from wear.

 

I don't really know about the lesser known SSDs. But, I have run games from my SSDs for several years and they are running fine and I've noticed no slow down at all. I have been pretty much all SSD for quite a while and suffered no ill effects from it. There were some tests done a few years ago testing various brands as to how many writes before they died. It surprised a lot of people that it took Petabytes of writes to kill one. SSDs are not as fragile as many people believe they are. Much of the info on the net about that stuff comes from the first generation SSDs, which were a little fragile. The more recent models are pretty tough.

 

Yeah that makes sense. I'll definitely stick with my Sandisk SSD.

 

- prices are coming down fast..
- even an external Seagate SSD 2TB will only cost around £80

- SSD's are amazing value for the money..!! *Nerd

 

The day is coming, and probably not many years away, when conventional drives will become obsolete and be completely replaced by some form of solid state drive. The major problem right now is cost but that is changing. It takes time for the cost of newer technology to come down, as it did with conventional drives. The Shugart Technology (later Seagate) ST-506 was introduced in 1980 with 5 MB of storage and sold for about $1500 US. And that $1500 bought a lot more then than now.

 

Here's another piece of trivia....

The Sharp PC-5000, introduced in 1983, used 128-kilobyte solid-state storage cartridges containing bubble memory. In 1984,Tallgrass Technologies Corporation had a tape backup unit of 40 MB with a solid state 20 MB unit built in. The 20 MB unit could be used instead of a hard drive.

 

And in mean time: Seagates biggest SSD

 

I want two in raid *Tongue

 

It will be prohibitively priced. Meaning, the average consumer would be priced out of the market. Only companies and government would purchase it.

Maybe I could steal it then sell it on eBay.. lol

 

Games most of the time they read data so that they are suitable for SSD. If you want to further increase reading speed data give two disks in RAID 1 - speed reading will be like in RAID 0 + data will be protected against disk failure...