POLL: Desktop SSDs, Pls Vote

[Virgorising]

Hi,

I would finally like to know.....LUV to know, how many here use an SSD with EVERYTHING on it in a Desktop system???

I mean, an SSD with sufficient capacity to accommodate everything: OS, all apps, data ....everything.

Even if you do that and choose to do internal backup with a mechanical drive, but only, say sometimes clone updated SSD to the backup drive, that would count as a "Yes, I do (and it's amazing)"

Thank you.

Is there some way we can make polls in threads? I mean, just to make it easier for more members to weigh in.
I must find out re the polls. Wait! I expanded thread tools and it has a Polls thingy!!! Let me figure this out now.
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Edit: I made a poll!!!!():biggrin:

 

[Nithin]

I do this. I have a 240G crucial SSD. I only have a couple GB free space though.

 

[sze5003]

There's no way I can fit everything on my ssd. Mainly os, driver, some apps..the rest goes on my 1tb hd.

 

[MongGrel]

works fine I imagine just to do normal computer operations.

 

[Virgorising]

I do this. I have a 240G crucial SSD. I only have a couple GB free space though.

Thank U. People posted before I discovered yes, we can do polls and figured out how to make one.

May I ask how you back up? External drive? Cloud?

 

[Virgorising]

There's no way I can fit everything on my ssd. Mainly os, driver, some apps..the rest goes on my 1tb hd.

So, you would be a number 2, in my new poll, yes? I wish I had thought of trying to make a poll before I posted. But I didn't.

Cause I never made a poll before.

Could you pls go up now and vote? Cause I get you are number 2, but I think you may be number 3. I thought carefully making the poll options. Tried to cover all relevant bases.

 

[sze5003]

Use a external to make a backup image or if you have a cloud service with enough space that works too. Paragon disk management will make backups and Windows has its own backup app too.

 

[Virgorising]

Use a external to make a backup image or if you have a cloud service with enough space that works too. Paragon disk management will make backups and Windows has its own backup app too.

I do internal backup. I would not do otherwise. Not with a full sized ATX case.

 

[Virgorising]

works fine I imagine just to do normal computer operations.

Jus noticed yr signature for the first time. I LUV IT. It's profound.

 

[MongGrel]

Yeah, I've been a Harlon Ellison fan all my life, it's his actually.

I oughta give him props maybe as he a guy like to sue people.

Maybe he'll give me a break as I've been a fan 40 years he he.

He molded my mind into the slightly psychotic thing it is for truth, justice and saying *Screw off if ya don't like it more or less* early in my life.

I don't think he actually said that, but was the general meaning.

 

[phis6]

seems option two would be more ideal if you have lots of stuff to keep on the local PC. otherwise, option one if its only a workstation :hmm:

 

[Charlie98]

Right now I can cram everything on my 256GB SSD, but I'll be upgrading to a 500+GB within the year.

 

[Virgorising]

Yeah, I've been a Harlon Ellison fan all my life, it's his actually.

I oughta give him props maybe as he a guy like to sue people.

Maybe he'll give me a break as I've been a fan 40 years he he.

He molded my mind into the slightly psychotic thing it is for truth, justice and saying *Screw off if ya don't like it more or less* early in my life.

I don't think he actually said that, but was the general meaning.

Well, he rocks (cept for the litigious part I did not know about)....and, so do YOU.

 

[Virgorising]

K.....I could not figure out why nobody appeared to be voting. Why? Cause I din get I hadda expand the poll to see.:$

I know, pitiable.() But see, I am learning.

I mean this: if the numbers for option 3 go thru the roof, I will buy a 256GB SSD.....and put everything on it, and stop ruminating over this WD Raptor. I will use this WD black as my backup drive.

I did buy an SSD on Black Friday... for 20 mins.....but I got cold feet and cancelled it on Newegg.

 

[Sunburn74]

SSD holds critical files and data
Large mechanical drive for backups and rarely accessed data

 

[Virgorising]

SSD holds critical files and data
Large mechanical drive for backups and rarely accessed data

But, let's say hypothetically, there were affordable SSDs with, say, 1T storage. Would you then use one as a stand alone drive and leave mechanical drives in the dust?

 

[h9826790]

But, let's say hypothetically, there were affordable SSDs with, say, 1T storage. Would you then use one as a stand alone drive and leave mechanical drives in the dust?

I have a 1T SSD (for OS, application, scratch disk, etc.), but I still need another 8T of HDD for all my other data.

Of course, if money doesn't matter, I can't see any particular reason why I won't use a pure SSD system. But I still prefer to use multi-SSDs rather than one big SSD stand alone system (e.g. one SSD as scratch disk, and the other one to store very important data).

 

[zCypher]

I have a 240GB SSD, two 1TB HDD and two 3TB HDD. I would definitely love to ditch HDD altogether, but will only do so when the price per GB makes sense. I suspect that may take a few more years.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I want to vote for both 2 and 3. I currently use a smaller boot SSD (240GB), and a 3TB HDD for data. If larger (1TB and larger) SSDs were cheap enough, yes, I would probably switch to pure SSD. Not entirely sure on that. I just don't see SSDs reaching price-parity with HDDs anytime soon, so tiered storage makes the most sense for now.

I also have a NAS that everything also gets copied to, and then the NAS gets backed up to the 3TB HDD.

 

[ClockHound]

Just setting up a new tiered system same as my old system but with more space!

Old system:
40Gig OS
64 Gig programs
1TB Data

New:
128 Gig SSD for OS
480 Gig SSD for programs and time-critical audio/sample files
1 TB spindle disk for data
2TB spindle disk for other data

Plan to add another 480 GB for a scratch disk. And when SSDs hit <.35 per GB, will start to migrate more data to those.

Multiple SSDs FTW. Would never use just one drive in a system even if was a 10TB SSD. It's a well known almost-fact that unused SATA controllers get jealous of being neglected and eventually corrupt the data of the operating controllers, thereby causing a drive failure. ;-)

 

[ShintaiDK]

4 PCs in the household. 2 desktops, 1 laptop and 1 HTPC. No mechanical drives in any.

 

[KentState]

Have a SSD for OS and then an SSD array for games. I keep all important files on home NAS, backed up to an external HDD and a remote NAS which has an external HDD attached to it.

Laptop has SSD for OS and then a HDD for game/files.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I use an SSD as my desktop Boot Drive but keep my data on a Mechanical Drive (multiple in raid)

1st reason is speed. OS boots faster, and any access to program files is faster. So basically, overall better performance.

2nd reason is reliability. In theory since there's no moving parts, as an OS drive it has an extremely low chance of failure. While it has a limited write amount, as an OS drive it should not reach that fast.

For data, I prefer to not worry about the write limit and also have a cheaper per TB cost, and while mechanical drives as stand alone are a VERY bad idea, I like to use software raid. Not a fan of hardware raid due to cost and other complexities, so for OS drive I like to use SSD for the reliability aspect. Even in servers I use a SSD for the OS, but the data drives are raided. I've been moving towards centralized storage though so most of my machines only have a SSD. Data is accessed via NFS or other mediums.

Now for reliability, this is probably not that strong an of argument right now as it's still a new tech and there are several brands/models that are known to fail such as OCZ ones, but as the tech matures I'd imagine the track record for random failure under normal/light usage is going to be much lower than mechanical drives.

 

[Wall Street]

I have an SSD that is a cache for a mechanical drive. I don't know what option that would be.

 

[abbcccus]

I have both setups: 3 desktops with only ssd drives in them (2 are HTPCs and the other is in my music room) and 6 other desktops with an ssd as a boot drive with HDD as well. My desktops with both types of drives are more powerful machines than the ones with just ssds, which makes comparing them difficult, but I just haven't ever seen any differences that make me want to go only ssd storage. If the cost for both in a size sufficient (2 TB) for my needs happened to be the same, then I'd probably go with a large ssd, but it looks like it'll be a LONG time before that happens.