Ssd upgrade? Should I?

[G25r8cer]

Been contemplating an ssd upgrade. Been looking at a crucial mx100 and Samsung 850. Good choices?

I need at least 250gb. I will turn my current 500gb into a mass storage/media drive. Plus I have a 750gb for image backups and 2tb WD my cloud.

I am really just looking for an increase in program launching and boot time. Which I'm sure an ssd will accomplish. I just want an ssd that will last a long time and not degrade quickly. Considering I have had my Samsung f3 for 4 years and it hasnt lost any speed.


My mobo is older and also would like to know what kind of support it has for ssd's. Would my mobo be a big bottleneck?

Eventually I will be replacing this mobo as it hasn't seen a bios update since 2010, doesn't have usb 3.0, etc.

Don't want to spend much more than $100

Currently my 500gb drive has 250gb used but, I have a 40gb virtual machine, 30gb music, and 20gb of various files that all could remain on the 500 once I get an ssd. However I would prefer to have a larger drive than absolutely needed. Just to "future proof" myself a little

 

[strollin]

No reason not to go for it.

If your mobo supports SATA, it will support ssd. However, you can buy PATA (IDE) ssds as well.

Since you're running Win 8.1, your OS supports ssd (TRIM). If you were running XP it would be a different story.

Ssds should last as long, if not longer, than an hdd. I've been using ssds for about 5 years now and currently have 5 ssds in use (all of my personal computers). I've never had any of them fail or slow down.

The only drawback to an ssd is that it costs more per Gig than an hdd. Lots of people talk about how expensive ssds are. I bought my first hdd in 1986, cost me $500 for a 20MB drive so I personally don't think paying $200 for a 500GB ssd is expensive.

 

[salvage-this]

Your motherboard does have SATA ports, but they are SATA 2 which is limited to 300MB/s. It would still be worth the upgrade since 300MB/s is still better than the 75-100MB/s you are currently getting with your HDD. Once you upgrade to a new system with a SATA 3 port you will start getting the full speed of the SSD.

Crucial MX 100 is a decent drive for the price. I have seen them right around the $100 mark for their 256 gb drives. If you can stretch the budget the 850 evo is a much better drive and is on sale at amazon for $120

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E250B-AM/dp/B00OAJ412U