Need advise on SSD upgrade...

hdmi said:

That's no surprise to me BTW. But I don't play games so it's completely irrelevant to me.

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So, we needed a 13-minute video to tell us what we all know? And yes, gamers know full well SSDs aren't adding frames to games

Let me explain: they haven't made the m2 NVMe adapter for the sata III socket yet but it goes ssd NGFF MSATA m2 the speeds are the same as the ssd drive but it is much safer to install still the sata III ssd. When they make an adapter for NVMe it will be a big shift in SSD speed are higher than standard HDDs.

To install Windows on SSD m2 NVMe if supported by the motherboard is the best solution. To install a PC game today it is enough to install on SSD 1TB clock III or 2TB which is a lot of money I recommend on a regular 3.5 "HDD which can be from 2TB to 8TB depends on how many PC games you have purchased I Have 141 on steam.

Dru2 said:

So, we needed a 13-minute video to tell us what we all know? And yes, gamers know full well SSDs aren't adding frames to games

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I don't know about you, but I sure didn't need a 13-minute video to tell me what I know. One of the things I know is that just about any decent NVMe SSD is certainly going to be more future proof than a Crucial MX500, regardless of who does or who doesn't think that Ivy Bridge is future proof.

hdmi said:

That's no surprise to me BTW. But I don't play games so it's completely irrelevant to me.

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Its not about games. It is just the fact that the extra speeds provided by NVMe over SATA is mostly unnecessary for routine use. SATA SSDs are fast enough for most users, for most use cases. That is the point of the video.

Dru2 said:

So, we needed a 13-minute video to tell us what we all know? And yes, gamers know full well SSDs aren't adding frames to games

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Not everyone knows, and that's something you didn't know.

hdmi said:

Up until the beginning of 2018, I didn't even own an SSD, and that is in spite of the fact that people on Sevenforums had been saying for more than 8 years that it is impossile to live without one. So how did I do it, then? Simple. For the most part, putting the laptop to sleep instead of shutting it down, and using Diskeeper in concert with Romex Software Primo Ramdisk (with the Dynamic Memory Management option enabled) was how.

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Can you write a tutorial on this? Will be useful for those with old machines like myself.

I guess both Diskeeper and Ramdisk are paid software. If so, are there any free reliable alternatives?

TheMystic said:

Its not about games. It is just the fact that the extra speeds provided by NVMe over SATA is mostly unnecessary for routine use. SATA SSDs are fast enough for most users, for most use cases. That is the point of the video.

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Yeah, but I never made the claim that most users need NVMe. They don't. This changes nothing of the fact that NVMe is more future proof than SATA, though, as NVMe is designed to be that, at least in part. Most users don't need anything much. In fact I have already explained multiple times that I don't actually need NVMe either. To which I will also add that 640K software is all the memory anybody would ever need on a computer.

TheMystic said:

Can you write a tutorial on this? Will be useful for those with old machines like myself.

I guess both Diskeeper and Ramdisk are paid software. If so, are there any free reliable alternatives?

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For Diskeeper (which is now called DymaxIO), there are no alternatives AFAIK. On systems that don't have an internal HDD it doesn't pay off, though. But even if you do have an internal HDD this still heavily depends on how you use your HDD and how much your HDD is holding you back. In the vast majority of situations IMO the money would be much, MUCH better spent on choosing a bigger SSD instead, now more than ever before. But if, for example, you already own a Diskeeper license anyway and you are building a system specifically for the goal of adding as many large capacity HDDs to it as possible so that adding an SSD will stop you from achieving this specific goal in question, if the HDD speed is still an important secondary priority in addition to this, then Diskeeper will more than likely be worth using. Whereas if you don't already have the license, you'd have to outweigh the benefits versus the cost of buying a new license so then there really is no standard answer IMO. In any event, it does a LOT more to internal HDDs than just automatic defrag. Albeit external USB drives are no longer supported by it since a long time ago, which is a bit unfortunate IMO.

For Primo Ramdisk with Dynamic Memory Management, ImDisk can be used as a free reliable alternative, even though ImDisk has some more limitations. Putting a ramdisk (any ramdisk) to good use is not always an easy task, as you need to figure out what to put on it─and when─versus not. Memory can also be used as a cache, and the SysMain service also uses memory to make frequently started apps start faster, but more importantly a ramdisk can cause memory starvation of your running apps if your ramdisk uses too much memory. With a ramdisk that uses Dynamic Memory Management, reducing the total size of the ramdisk content causes memory to automatically be freed up again. Copying data back and forth between the ramdisk and (a) physical storage device(s) can therefore be viewed as a way to take control over the amount of memory that the ramdisk uses. So, this is a typical example of how a fast NVMe SSD can make a big difference to someone who really depends on stuff like this.