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AVeryLargeRadish
Aug 19, 2011

I LITERALLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO NOT BE A WEIRD SEXUAL CREEP ABOUT PREPUBESCENT ANIME GIRLS, READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE!!!

Unlucky7 posted:

I am also guessing even with the throttling, the SSD will still be faster than my current HHD?

If that is the case, then I may as well take the plunge.

The thing is that the random 4k performance is by far the most important metric and as you can see in the charts posted earlier a SSD will be 40-100 times faster in that type of work so yeah, even with the bottleneck a SSD will be vastly faster than any HDD.

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AVeryLargeRadish
Aug 19, 2011

I LITERALLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO NOT BE A WEIRD SEXUAL CREEP ABOUT PREPUBESCENT ANIME GIRLS, READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE!!!

Sprite141 posted:

Well I'm dumb. I estimated my current storage drive use to be at 800-ish gb, though I've had a hell of a time doing so as it's failing pretty hard. Well as it turns out, I was only using about 600 of it. Woops!

Guess I don't need that 2tb ssd then. I could return it and get the 1tb 860 Evo on sale for $110. But the 2tb was on sale for $30 the 1tb's normal price, and that's a deal I feel is worth keeping.

Also I'm lazy, and my hdd is failing so hard that i don't want to wait longer to extract the data from it.

Ehhh, don't worry about it, you'll have too much storage until you need more.

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