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Kingston Announces Shipment of A2000 Series PCIe 3.0 4x NVMe PCIe SSD - $100 for 1 TB

kapone32 said:
What??? You would use an HDD over an SSD. I guess you like making coffee while your game loads.
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Not at all - Games load rather fast on both my hard drives, SSDs for games only takes a couple of seconds off the load times making it absolutely worthless to me, and with a awful price/tb they're essentially worthless to me when I can have storage fast enough for my use and plenty of it at the same time.
I think the bigger issue lies with impatience - most people nowadays can't stand waiting 10 seconds more for a game to load, pretty sad really.
To each their own.
 
kapone32 said:
What??? You would use an HDD over an SSD. I guess you like making coffee while your game loads.
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Games are safe on my 512GB SSD, that's not what I was talking about. What I keep on HDD is pictures, music and a lot of stuff collected from the HDDs I have owned over the past 20 years.

Xx Tek Tip xX said:
Strange - I've never had these issues with my HDDs at least - writing is audible but it's nothing actually irritating and I'd still use them over an SSD for mass storage and for gaming myself, Noise with HDDs is quite a big issue with seagate in particular it seems, my 2tb barracuda that died a few years back was making an absolute racket under load...
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Oh, that's not what I meant. My HDD only gets noisy when it starts up/spins down. But it's annoying over an otherwise silent system.
 
a rephrase here; I only see HDDs worth in storing stuffs in long term where I barely access the files. SSDs are fine for daily use & I prefer no moving parts. But since SSDs are getting cheaper, I don't see the reason why coz power consumption is way more lower than HDDs.
 
Tsukiyomi91 said:
But since SSDs are getting cheaper, I don't see the reason why coz power consumption is way more lower than HDDs.
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Power consumption is a non-issue on HDDs and SSDs, they draw too little to an issue.
SSDs might be getting "cheaper" but once you compare them to HDDs, they're poor value for high capacity drives (4tb for example).
 
Tsukiyomi91 said:
a rephrase here; I only see HDDs worth in storing stuffs in long term where I barely access the files. SSDs are fine for daily use & I prefer no moving parts. But since SSDs are getting cheaper, I don't see the reason why coz power consumption is way more lower than HDDs.
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Not really. Because newer SSDs are PCIe based, they have a higher idle power draw than a SATA drive.
I believe that has been fixed in PCIe 3.1 and newer, but that's not that widespread yet.
 
About to buy this one....500GB for 67€....i had regular 120GB SSD INTEL so far.....
 
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