Hoping someone here might be able to give some advice…
I have a laptop which currently has a 512GB SSD that I want to upgrade to 1TB.
The currently installed SSD has seq read/write speeds of approx. 3000 MB/s
I’m wondering how meaningful these differences in speeds are. I suspect they’re important for certain specialist applications, but may not be particularly noticeable for mainstream computing tasks. In which case I’ll just install my spare 1TB SSD instead of buying a newer one.
Would appreciate it if anyone could give some insight.
The speed determines how fast your games install, how fast they load up how fast data is transferred and also how fast your downloads will go as the download needs to be moved to certain areas etc.
So I wouldn’t skimp out on a bad SSD but most cheap ones are pretty good nowadays.
If you’re dealing with large files, that’s when you’ll notice. So outside of gaming, if you’re a photographer processing images in Lightroom, for example.
I don’t do any PC gaming and don’t do frequent photo or video editing. Most of the time I’m doing fairly standard office-type stuff with files typically smaller than 200 mb.
I sometimes run script-based analysis of data in large numbers of files (processed one after the other) but the individual files are generally smallish files (typically less than 200 mb, and I don’t think ever larger than 1 GB). I’m assuming the sequential read speeds are not particularly important for this.
I also sometimes run virtual machines. I suppose these are the biggest files i use but i don’t use them regularly.
Only one drive slot in the laptop, so not an option unfortunately.
Whenever I change drives I’ve always started from scratch with a fresh OS install, so didn’t think of this. But will give it a go.