Intel 520 SSD

[strife]

I just need to nut-up and get an SSD. I cringe at the prices, period, but based on what you guys are saying, it's money well spent.

They are dirt cheap compared to a year ago.. you can get a 120GB(which is plenty for a primary drive) for $90-100.

You don't have to buy a super fast SSD to see huge gains over a spinning. A slow SSD will destroy basically any spinning drive.

BUT!!!! They aren't a HUGE upgrade for gaming. Yes you load the game faster and maps faster... but once everything is loaded, you're not going to see an FPS gain or anything like that. So don't go into it with the understanding that you're going to get one and see a huge noticeable different in gaming... you won't... well at least in most MMO's/FPS. Maybe you will in some game that constantly writes to the HD, but that's not the case for most games.

Ram/CPU/GPU are all a much better upgrades for gaming than a SSD. Once you get those in the respectable range, then you buy the SSD. (as an example) I wouldn't upgrade a computer running a 3 - 4 year old 512 MB video card to an SSD... I'd buy a video card .


If you do decide to do it and your drive doesn't come with software to do it(like mine didn't), you can go here and get instructions.. pretty straight forward. I will admit that I used different software to do my copy (this software) as I was having issues with the software they stated saying my drive was too small. But it was stupid easy to do.