On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:46:33 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote:

On 10/22/2019 10:53 AM, Melmail_9494 wrote:
Hi guys,

Just a quick question. I am considering going to SSD. I am not that
familiar with the ins and outs of SSD vs. regular HDD but do you think
SSD is worth the extra outlay?

Thanks

Yes. Period.

1 TB for $115:
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-1TB...dp/B073SBQMCX/

Lynn

What I'd expect may be found for $80 on a rainy-day sale. WD and
Sandisk effectively market the same drive in apparent duplicity,
although Sandisk may or not share the greater distinction for certain
if a similar reticence to release published specifications for precise
components that constitute their build;- WD and Sandisk operate much
the same in a subsidiary capacity as do ASUS and ARock. Practically,
which what a WD warranty may help to negate, speculatively, over what
matter or manner may be a performance consideration to another brand
with identical characteristics.

Samsung would presently continue hold the best-test of all SSDs,
needless to say. Perhaps at a marginal ten-percent additional
allowance to mollify WD among others, notably Crucial MX5 models.

Given a generality of SSD sizes, conjecturally, the net is
considerable when accounting available operating system whereby to
deploy it on. We're hardly so afar from the marginality of 2G OS from
yesterday, by what liberal allowances account to a 20G OS, I tend
doubt a LINUX REDHAT platform conceivably entails;- REDHAT and W10
being of course what computing actually means to an extant PC and its
so-called revolutionary impetus: A standpoint given Pacific Rim
manufacturers, at present, of motherboards and their "official" driver
support/compliance policies.

Which then in consequence opens a present state of hardware controller
support at intersection to three types of so intended "silicon to
mechanical" drive successions. The latest, such as form an AM4 socket
platform, being not least an operational system dependency permitted
thruputs of 5 or x6 faster, than our proposed WD/Sandisk capacity. One
hardly to be seen for other than inane to consider from a SATA
conjecture, were it not but for a theoretical juncture of Widest
Comparability which nicely tailors itself to a loyal if not
traditionally and quite niche *NIX crowd.

Leaving, lastly, an immediacy of stratagem whereby best disparate
technology meets: What benefits by a SSD are negated to older
mechanical platters. Which indeed they do, disposed, as they are, to
a ongoing reserve implemented best by a discretional capacity best to
tactically deploy hardware resources. True, slapping a SSD upside and
into a laptop for replacement of a mechanical device, may indeed
permit the appointed reviewer obsequiously to declare to the world of
reviewers his intent, as well, to have successfully reached satorical
enlightenment. For all intents such a person then immediately derives
by performance considerations per force and usual to such rites
entitled to a "Cloned" conversion.

But, that is not necessarily nor all there is about organization
skills programs and their representational datum respectively,
individualistically, and potentially, proceed from upon a premise to
empirically derive measurable results from where advantage serves
physical placement in arrays of differential platform storage
mechanisms.