After swapping the cable out with a more suitable 6 Gb/s cable and plugging it into an Intel SATA port, the tests reveal numbers closer to the 500 MB/s mark: AS SSD Benchmark Samsung 850 Pro with 6Gb/s SATA Cable on Intel 6Gb/s SATA III Portīenchmarks are just benchmarks and I never believe that any benchmark could ever supersede real-life performance. So before installing the 850, I decided to measure the time it took for my PC to boot to login, and then from login to ready (which I set as the point in which my Rainlendar widgets show up). Here are the numbers: Condition So why is this unit lacking? I decided to check the cable and my hunch was right: I was using a 3 Gb/s SATA cable and was plugging it into an Asmedia SATA port. The benchmarks I found online suggested that the drive is capable of sequential write speeds of around 500 MB/s. The first thing I wanted to do after installing was test it out. I grabbed a copy of AS SSD Benchmark, and here are my initial test results: AS SSD Benchmark Samsung 850 Pro with 3Gb/s SATA Cable on Asmedia 6Gb/s SATA III Port I skipped the backup, cloned my WD Blue to the 850 Pro, reconfigured the boot priority, and it’s good to go. Turning on the PC, I see that the BIOS detected the SSD and proceeded to log into Windows as usual. I can skip the backup and the move-here-and-then-move-back-there routine, right? Awesome! Opening up my Corsair K550 to find a spot for the SSD is a walk in the park, and after fumbling with the box my P8Z77-V Pro came with to find an extra SATA cable the installation is straightforward. On second thought, the new drive is actually larger than my old drive. I tried to follow the steps outlined here. Without really thinking much, I grabbed a unit and here it is: Samsung 850 Pro 256GB Installation I quickly found a unit at a computer store near my home. At about $148 (or IDR 2 million) at the time of writing, it’s also not that expensive considering its performance. It has to be (1) big enough so that I can migrate my existing HDD without problems, (2) fast enough so that grumpy is replaced with happy, and (3) doesn’t make me cry when I look at my bank account later on.įive minutes of googling will tell you that in mid-2015, the one of the best all-around performer SSD is the Samsung 850 Pro. The course of action is clear on this one: ditch the HDD and get an SSD. I could fall asleep in half of that! I have enough RAM and definitely enough juice in my i5 to crunch through the startup process easily. What I do mind is the time it takes from login to ready. Get this: 4 minutes plus. It takes about 21 seconds for my PC to display the Windows 8.1 login screen from a cold boot. But I’m not fond of the idea of shutting it down after a day’s work (well, a day’s play). Gaming is okay, with enough frames per second to prevent me from damaging my Ducky. I consider my PC good enough in all other areas: Intel Core i5-3570K, 2×4 gigs of Corsair Vengeance, a 2-gig MSI HD7850, a 250-gig WD Blue for the system and 3 terabytes of Hitachi for the primary storage.Įverything is great for now. My last upgrade was “out-of-the-box”: a Ducky Shine 3 full-sized mechanical keyboard to replace my flimsy Rapoo wireless keyboard that kept me away from any serious games. This time, I’m addressing a more performance-related aspect of my PC. It’s been a while since I’ve done anything to upgrade my PC.
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