BUYING A SSD - WHY DO I WANT ONE?

BUYING A SSD – LESSON 1

Ok so that’s it!  You have spent weeks reading every article ever created about SSDs and are convinced that you have to have one.  Life will simply cease to exist if you can’t experience the amazing technology that has rocked the earth for the past 3 years.  And that’s why you are here!   From this point forward, we are going to make sure you understand and get the right ssd for you. We are in it together and we both understand that the ssd is the absolute best visible upgrade you can do for your computing experience.

 We are getting a SSD!!!  Yes!!!

Ummm....Errrrr.....Why again do we want a SSD?  

Lets quickly go over all the things we know one more time shall we?

SSDs:

• weigh less than a hard drive;
• have no moving parts;
• are completely silent;
• are cooler than a hard drive;
• have less total fan use;
• have less total system noise;
• provide a longer battery life;
• won’t destroy your work or break if dropped;
• can start a laptop in as little as 10 seconds;
• speed up everything you do on a computer ALOT; and
• load and transition between scenes in games some times 4-5 times faster.

Ok so…that’s it in a nut shell but how do we know what ssd to get?  There are price considerations, storage capacity concerns, different manufacturers, different controllers, firmware, TRIM and just exactly how do we get through all of this???  Wait....Do I have to TRIM my SSD? Do I dare ask how to do this?  Is there a course available?

Lets take a breath for a sec, go grab a beverage and some chips, come on back, put our feet up and enjoy the read. 


"Sir, Please please put down the hammer and step away from that laptop!"


While your waiting for Lesson 2, feel free to find more introductory articles here such as The Mechanics of the SSD or SLC vs MLC or better yet check out what I dug up in The SSD Review Video Series!  If you are really ambitious, you can even find one of the first articles written on the internet, written by yours truly, which is still current even today, 'An Introduction Guide To SSD Storage'


BUYING A SSD - Lesson 2 - Price, Size and Manufacturers