Is an SSD Drive Bad for Gaming?

I think there is a lot of fear that SSD's will wear out, but truth is that they just don't. I have been running an SSD only system for years and it's still perfectly healthy. I run Steam on it's own SSD and it works just fine.
If you consider that you might spend a small fortune on a graphics card every two to three years, then the speed improvement with an SSD has to be worth the money - even if they do wear out after three years - which actually they don't!

davefaz said:

I think there is a lot of fear that SSD's will wear out, but truth is that they just don't. I have been running an SSD only system for years and it's still perfectly healthy. I run Steam on it's own SSD and it works just fine.
If you consider that you might spend a small fortune on a graphics card every two to three years, then the speed improvement with an SSD has to be worth the money - even if they do wear out after three years - which actually they don't!

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.

essenbe said:

I don't really . 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.

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.

LMiller7 said:

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.