Tairiku, my case is everything works faster but as a secondary reason to use SSD is I don't have any moving parts as in a hard drive to get damaged by movement of my notebook other than fans. My past experience has been that hard drive in notebooks are lucky to last 2 years before failing Since 2012 I have not had an SSD fail in any way they all still read and write at the original speeds and they keep on working.
Fortunately my laptop still worked after being knocked off a scanning machine conveyor by a Greek security in Athens - he hastily covered up his ID. That had a HDD in it- but the laptop was in its padded bag.
Pragmatically I notice no difference for most operations bar intensive copying and imaging with a SSD. It just depends what types of programs you're running and whether they are disk intensive or not - and if so, that they use the SSD exclusively.
It depends on what you do on your computer, heavy IO works will obviously benefit more from an SSD. You wont see much difference if 90% of what you do is just random web surfing and stuff. I would say that SSDs are best used as system drives. just keep your big games on an HDD. Past the loading screens, it doesn't run any differently on an HDD or SSD.
Hate to break it to you guys but both of those (HDD & SSD) reign is over , you should all try intel's Optane technology to realize a massive improvement over one another .
Just happened to come across this review with Crucial SSD vs Optane drives on an Asrock MBO showing performance figures:
ASRock X299 Taichi XE Motherboard Review - Page 5 of 7 - FunkyKit
Not convinced spending £££££s would improve my general browsing performance... and I can live with 7-9 mins for a differential disk image for now.
SSD is good for more than just the OS.
I have my pianos on the SSD.
It used to take minutes to load six pianos.
Now all six load in ten seconds.
Nice!
I multi-boot Windows 10. My main Windows 10 partition, including many startup processes is on an SSD. The secondary Windows 10 is just for test purposes, fewer startup processes and boots off a fast 7200 RPM HDD. The SSD Windows boots up in about 30 seconds. The HDD Windows takes almost 3 minutes.
I had a similar performance improvement when I replaced a 7200 RPM HDD in my Lenovo T530 laptop running Windows 10 with an SSD.
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Back to original post though.
OP you don't need to defrag your hard drives nightly, Windows 10 automatically deals with mundane tasks like that weekly when you aren't using it.
The only real way to help drive performance in this day and age is to just get a faster hard drive. Even if your drive is already 7200RPM but a little older.
I had these 250GB Seagate drivers from 2010 I was using, but I snagged a 1TB WD Blue that actually was benchmarking 40-50% faster despite both being 7200RPM.
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