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As I have been building new computers I am only using SSD drives.

In this rebuild with the Intel Core i5-10600K Desktop Processor 6 Cores up to 4.8 GHz Unlocked LGA1200 (Intel 400 Series Chipset) 125W is it logical to use a SAMSUNG (MZ-V8V1T0B/AM) 980 SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology as the boot drive.

I am using all the older Seagate or WD drives for external back up.

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For me, I wouldn't use anything that spins ever again, except for backup purposes.


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No matter what the design of the rest of your computer, the use of an SSD is probably the single-most effective improvement in performance you can make. I'm with VideoTrack.


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So I ordered the internal ssd$$$. Jezzs, I am going to need to find a girlfriend with a lot of money and a better boat. Please send photos of boat!

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Agreed. Once you go SSD (for your boot drive at least), you'll never go back.

There still is a very compelling reason to buy spinning hard drives - price and size. An 8tb SSD is $1099 while an 8tb spinning drive is $199 (that's in Canuck Bucks).


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Originally Posted By: Simon - PG Music
An 8tb SSD is $1099 while an 8tb spinning drive is $199.

That's why I still go spinning for my media drives. Those have larger capacity for all the big audio/video files. I think I've been using SSD for my OS drives for close to 10 years by now.




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Yes agreed Simon. Everything is about money at the end of the day. Two or three TBs is about all I ever need and the data can always stored off the system.

I really wanted to know if everyone liked the internal SSD for a boot drive.

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My music computer has three drives, a SSD for the OS, a SSD for my Kontakt patches, and a 4TB for data and other software/patches that are not on either SSD drives. Those software/patches are things that either I don't use much or do not need a SSD, like MIDI loops.


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I have an internal (on the board) SAMSUNG (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technologyssd in the new i9 machine. I really can not tell much difference than the
SAMSUNG 870 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-77E1T0B/AM)

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Originally Posted By: Planobilly
Yes agreed Simon. Everything is about money at the end of the day. Two or three TBs is about all I ever need and the data can always stored off the system.

I really wanted to know if everyone liked the internal SSD for a boot drive.

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Oh definitely. I'm not sure you'll find anyone who doesn't like an SSD for the boot drive. That said, I have a pair of 7200RPM 1tb drives in RAID 0 with a hardware RAID controller as the D drive in my gaming machine (C drive is SSD) and those are nearly as fast as the SSD for loading my games from them.


Originally Posted By: Planobilly
I have an internal (on the board) SAMSUNG (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technologyssd in the new i9 machine. I really can not tell much difference than the
SAMSUNG 870 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-77E1T0B/AM)

Billy


Sustained speed is the only difference between those two. Access time is more of the difference you'd "feel", and there's not much perceptible difference there between a SATA and an NVMe SSD.


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