Do you recommend a SSD?

[Skeithex]

Do you always recommend people to get or upgrade to a SSD for storage/speed?

[froggyboy604]

I recommend SSD for people who are willing to spend more money on a faster drive with less storage than a similar price hard drive.

I think if the person does not want to spend more money on 1TB of storage, they will not want to spend more money on a 1TB SSD, and are happy with a hard drive.

Users who only use their computer for web browsing, watching standard quality video, office work and doing other simpler tasks may not feel the faster speed of a SSD is worth it.

Some modern hard drives spin faster and have more cache memory like 64 MB, so they are not as slow thesedays.

[Skeithex]

Not as slow, but the better HDDs can still not hold up against a SSD. Which thankfully you can get some 1 TB SSD for about $150 or less.

[froggyboy604]

$150 is a good price for a 1TB ssd.

[Skeithex]

looks like a 2 tb ssd though still cost pretty high, which hopefully that cheapens by the time I need to get a PS5.

[froggyboy604]

Hopefully, there won't be a SSD shortage because of the Coronavirus. A SSD shortage may cause all SSD to be more expensive.

[Skeithex]

hopefully not, specially when they were finally coming down in price.