Should You Get an SSD for Your Computer? (A Solid State Drive)

A storage drive is an essential part of a computer, and usually this would be a hard drive. But in the past years, SSDs, or solid state drives have become affordable for anyone. Solid state drives are much faster than Hard drives, and have no moving parts, so they are much less prone to failure, and are more reliable. In this video I compare advantages and disadvantages of ssd vs hdd, because there are a couple advantages of both. For example, hard drives are usually much cheaper and can have much larger capacities.

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[floridaboz]

I love getting the answer in the first 30 seconds, thanks Joe

[blaziansong]

Not a techie and I was able to comprehend a lot of what you said. I appreciate it.

[ThirstyConduit]

I actually have 15 m.2 drives, my computer boots before I press the power button

[ThioJoe]

Fun fact this is one of my favorite thumbnails I've made idk why

[hamooozmugharbel]

I would love to upgrade to an SSD but i need my 8TBS of hentai

[Ilikeminecraft]

It's amazing how far the price per GB has dropped on SSDs since the making of this video.

[kevinhharmony]

OK, I just finished watching like 6 videos on ssds. By far, this guy has the best voice, the best rythm and keeps it the most interesting.

[nyali]

The only youtuber that can make a video 12 minutes long and not be boring.

[david]

A good article and I agree that the most benefits would be gained by using the ssd as the primary disk for the os. In my 25 years experience of using traditional hard drives only a couple have ever failed. I still have a few IDE drives form 2003 that work perfectly. Used as archival disks via a hdd caddy, they store some of my old film collection. Dont know if I could trust an ssd to do that.

[protectorofillinois]

I also want to add that the SSD lowers my energy bill, uses less power, less heat, and you stated perfectly, no moving parts at all. I'm going to get an external SSD drive for backup use.

[Craylor]

I finally got an SSD in my laptop 3 years ago. I'm so glad I did! I have a 256GB SSD for Windows and my programs, then I have a 1TB external hard drive for files. For video editing, I have a MacBook Pro running final cut with a 512GB SSD, then I have a 4TB external hard drive for file storage.

[jerry]

I have two SSDs in my laptop. Didn’t cost that much for the 2nd one and now I have very fast extra space!

[VinylRescue]

I installed a Samsung 750 EVO 256GB SSD over a year ago and it was a huge improvement. I edit hi-res WAV files from album recordings with Adobe CC 2017 and it has helped a lot. But I still use HDD for everything else as I can't justify the extra expense for an SSD for faster storage.

[clemstevenson]

I would personally recommend the use of a relatively small SSD (120 to 240 gigabytes) as the boot drive, and high capacity HDDs for data storage. I would also recommend creating a clone backup drive, using a 2.5" HDD of a similar capacity to the SSD, via a SATA-to-USB adapter.

[Parknest]

I upgraded both my desktop and laptop to SSD just over a year ago. The biggest difference I noticed that Outlook started up a LOT quicker on the SSD. They're worth every penny.

[NickWride]

I use an SSD for my boot drive, but I use HDD's for storage as I am a data hoarder (19.5Tb of HDD space combined), and also use scratch disks for Photoshop. Windows runs better from an SSD but there is no way I'd be able to afford to buy enough SSD's for all my storage needs, and I will never use an SSD for scratch disks.

[laststopgamingback-up]

My hard drive has been with me ever since mt first pc. And it still runs fairly good. I'm impressed. I think I had it for about 5-6 years

[valthewiz]

I got a Kingston 240GB and I couldn't be more happy. Everything is much faster now. ^^

[migats]

I have experience. The computer of my parents used to be slow. And it got even slower over time and it came to the point that it frustrated them soo much that they called for my help. I decided to install an old SSD into the computer and then it was faster than ever.

[SuperiorBeen]

Actually, SSDs are getting slower the more data they contain. Also, the reliability drops when the SSD is almost full. If you have a lot of RAM you could use a RAM disk to store your browser session and disable swap to avoid SSD tear.