should i get 250GB of SSD or 500GB for gaming?

[saif_1996]

i was wondering if the 250GB vs the 500GB have a big impact on gaming, does it? cause im building a new computer and i dont now if 500GB of SSD is really worth it.. is it? or should i stick with the cheaper 250GB?

btw what brand should i get? should i get samsung or is there something better?

by new gaming pc spec is
2 sli gtx 980 OC watercool'd
i7-4790k
16GB of ram
asus hero motherboard
1TB

 

[USAFRet]

The gaming performance difference between a 250GB and a 500GB SSD is zero.

 

[saif_1996]

ok then another question,

will 500GB make the loading shorter and less annoying then a 250GB?

The gaming performance difference between a 250GB and a 500GB SSD is zero.

 

[USAFRet]

ok then another question,

will 500GB make the loading shorter and less annoying then a 250GB?

The gaming performance difference between a 250GB and a 500GB SSD is zero.

Not really. In theory, the large you go with an SSD, the 'faster' it is. In reality, you will never notice.
All depends on what is installed on it.

 

[saif_1996]

ok then another question,

will 500GB make the loading shorter and less annoying then a 250GB?

The gaming performance difference between a 250GB and a 500GB SSD is zero.

Not really. In theory, the large you go with an SSD, the 'faster' it is. In reality, you will never notice.
All depends on what is installed on it.

so you think i should just pick the 128GB? its way cheaper but are you sure it wont make the load times in game a bit longer if i go with the 128GB?

 

[USAFRet]

ok then another question,

will 500GB make the loading shorter and less annoying then a 250GB?

The gaming performance difference between a 250GB and a 500GB SSD is zero.

Not really. In theory, the large you go with an SSD, the 'faster' it is. In reality, you will never notice.
All depends on what is installed on it.

so you think i should just pick the 128GB? its way cheaper but are you sure it wont make the load times in game a bit longer if i go with the 128GB?

For todays prices, a 250GB is the sweet spot between price vs size.

 

[Solandri]

will 500GB make the loading shorter and less annoying then a 250GB?

To make a SSD, you basically take the flash memory from multiple USB flash drives, and run them in parallel like a giant RAID-0 array. When you write a 8MB file, it gets split up into eight 1MB chunks, and each "flash drive" has to write just 1 MB. When you read the 8MB file, each "flash drive" reads 1MB and sends it back to the controller, which puts the pieces back together to regenerate the original 8MB file.

Larger SSDs tend to be faster because they're made up of more "flash drives" each accessed by its own lane. A smaller SSD may only use 2, 4, or 8 lanes. A larger one will use 16. Currently, the number of lanes (and thus the speed increase) maxes out for 250GB SSDs. This may change as PCIe SSDs become more common, but with SATA3 being the current speed limit there's little point to adding more lanes. To make a 500GB or 1TB SSD, you just use higher memory capacities (each "flash drive" is bigger). There's a small speedup associated with these higher capacities, up to a point when the time to lookup an individual memory cell starts to degrade performance.

The sweet spot is currently right at 250-500 GB. In general the 500GB SSDs are slightly faster, but it's not something you'll notice in regular use. The 1TB SSDs are slightly slower. The 128GB SSDs are noticeably slower (they use half the number of lanes).

The main speed issue I can see between a 250GB and 500GB SSD is the remaining free space. SSDs cannot overwrite a 1 with a 0 (or 0 with a 1) like a HDD. They have to first change the memory cell to an intermediate "erased" state (they're basically a giant EEPROM). Changing a cell to the "erased" state takes a lot more time than changing it to a 1 or a 0. So if you tried to erase the cells as you needed to write new data, it'd be nearly as slow or slower than a HDD. Instead, the SSD will erase deleted cells in the background so you won't notice the slowness, and so they'll be ready for lightning-fast writes.

If your SSD fills up, the number of pre-erased cells is smaller, and you can get into a situation where the drive cannot write new data until it has first erased more cells. The write speed will plummet when this happens. This is partly why they recommend you keep 15%-25% of the SSD space empty. Obviously that's a lot easier to do with a 500GB SSD than a 250GB SSD. That's really the only reason I could see getting a 500GB SSD over a 250GB SSD; i after you've installed the OS, programs, and games, you expect to be over 200GB of space used, then I'd considering getting the 500GB SSD instead.

 

[saif_1996]

will 500GB make the loading shorter and less annoying then a 250GB?

To make a SSD, you basically take the flash memory from multiple USB flash drives, and run them in parallel like a giant RAID-0 array. When you write a 8MB file, it gets split up into eight 1MB chunks, and each "flash drive" has to write just 1 MB. When you read the 8MB file, each "flash drive" reads 1MB and sends it back to the controller, which puts the pieces back together to regenerate the original 8MB file.

Larger SSDs tend to be faster because they're made up of more "flash drives" each accessed by its own lane. A smaller SSD may only use 2, 4, or 8 lanes. A larger one will use 16. Currently, the number of lanes (and thus the speed increase) maxes out for 250GB SSDs. This may change as PCIe SSDs become more common, but with SATA3 being the current speed limit there's little point to adding more lanes. To make a 500GB or 1TB SSD, you just use higher memory capacities (each "flash drive" is bigger). There's a small speedup associated with these higher capacities, up to a point when the time to lookup an individual memory cell starts to degrade performance.

The sweet spot is currently right at 250-500 GB. In general the 500GB SSDs are slightly faster, but it's not something you'll notice in regular use. The 1TB SSDs are slightly slower. The 128GB SSDs are noticeably slower (they use half the number of lanes).

The main speed issue I can see between a 250GB and 500GB SSD is the remaining free space. SSDs cannot overwrite a 1 with a 0 (or 0 with a 1) like a HDD. They have to first change the memory cell to an intermediate "erased" state (they're basically a giant EEPROM). Changing a cell to the "erased" state takes a lot more time than changing it to a 1 or a 0. So if you tried to erase the cells as you needed to write new data, it'd be nearly as slow or slower than a HDD. Instead, the SSD will erase deleted cells in the background so you won't notice the slowness, and so they'll be ready for lightning-fast writes.

If your SSD fills up, the number of pre-erased cells is smaller, and you can get into a situation where the drive cannot write new data until it has first erased more cells. The write speed will plummet when this happens. This is partly why they recommend you keep 15%-25% of the SSD space empty. Obviously that's a lot easier to do with a 500GB SSD than a 250GB SSD. That's really the only reason I could see getting a 500GB SSD over a 250GB SSD; i after you've installed the OS, programs, and games, you expect to be over 200GB of space used, then I'd considering getting the 500GB SSD instead.

thx for clearing everything man : ) but 1 more thing, which brand should i get? samsung? or some other brand?