Question Should I Get an SSD?

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acidblue811

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After booting up my PC, disk check ran out of nowhere. I thought I'd probably have to reinstall windows because a system file got bad sectored or something. Then the sign in page appears and I was mildly relieved. But I can't sign in. Whenever I try, I redirected to a default looking dektop with a popup window with a message along the lines of "can't sign in, try signing out and in again". Pretty sure I needed a install, no files in the drive that has no back up, so install away I says. But then I thought popped in. "Maybe I should jusy finally get that 500 gb WD Green I've been eyeing". So should I?

Tldr: OS HDD messed up again, have back ups, trying to self justify getting an SSD

Thanks for any feedback
 
SSD? Yes.
500GB WD Green? No.

That is one of the worst "mainstream" drives you could buy.

Moving from an HDD based system to SSD is an eyeopening experience.

What are the rest of the specs of this system? Primarily, motherboard and CPU.
 
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USAFRet said:
SSD? Yes.
500GB WD Green? No.

That is one of the worst "mainstream" drives you could buy.

Moving from an HDD based system to SSD is an eyeopening experience.

What are the rest of the specs of this system? Primarily, motherboard and CPU.
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MB: gigabyte aorus b450 pro no wifi
CPU: gen 2 ryzen 7

Any input on what SSD would be appreciated
 
acidblue811 said:
Physical store. DOn't live in US and I need the system up by Monday. Our online delivery stuff are slow and I am running some errznds today so I could pop by a couple of good places
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What is available in this store?

Samsung 860 EVO, Crucial MX500 are good choices for SATA III drives.

Samsung 970 EVO or EVO plus for a NVMe drive.
 
USAFRet said:
What is available in this store?

Samsung 860 EVO, Crucial MX500 are good choices for SATA III drives.

Samsung 970 EVO or EVO plus for a NVMe drive.
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No idea, I'm mostly a wd guy for my back up hdds so I was drawn to the greens. I'll be checking their stuff ouf later. Minimum is a decent os drive. Being good for starfield would be a bonus. Mostly seeing if they have any of the four recommends and I'd probably just decided which to get based on box specs
 
acidblue811 said:
No idea, I'm mostly a wd guy for my back up hdds so I was drawn to the greens. I'll be checking their stuff ouf later. Minimum is a decent os drive. Being good for starfield would be a bonus. Mostly seeing if they have any of the four recommends and I'd probably just decided which to get based on box specs
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There are good WD drives.
Just not the WD Green.
 
The native port isn't m2, apparently older boards have pcie 1, basically the long part of the male side goes past the divider of the port. I tried looking for a straight adapter but no dice. Current plan is getting a 2.5 sata adaptor for the ssd (apparent that's a thing) and a 2.5 to 3.5 hdd caddy. Probably won't get 100% of the data transfer speed but would probably be a sight faster than the current setup. Stuff wasn't available locally, so got them on order. I'd probably get them by the 17th, like I said prime isn't a thing over here. I'm probably working on my tablet until then
 
acidblue811 said:
The native port isn't m2, apparently older boards have pcie 1, basically the long part of the male side goes past the divider of the port. I tried looking for a straight adapter but no dice. Current plan is getting a 2.5 sata adaptor for the ssd (apparent that's a thing) and a 2.5 to 3.5 hdd caddy. Probably won't get 100% of the data transfer speed but would probably be a sight faster than the current setup. Stuff wasn't available locally, so got them on order. I'd probably get them by the 17th, like I said prime isn't a thing over here. I'm probably working on my tablet until then
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This motherboard?
www.gigabyte.com

B450 AORUS PRO (rev. 1.0) Specification | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

Lasting Quality from GIGABYTE.GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ motherboards bring together a unique blend of features and technologies that offer users the absolute ...
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Running the ssd for a couple of days now. Synching stuff from the old instance was a more annoying than usual. Processes got faster, but I think I might have gotten over hyped by the testimonials. Still, far better than the hdd.

Thanks for the feedback guys
 
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