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[โ€“] toddestan@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't think there were SSDs that large when they first came out in the late 2000's. I saved up for an 80GB one back around 2009, and it was an absolute piece of trash. It was fast when it wanted to be, but most of the time it would randomly stutter and just go unresponsive for several seconds causing the rest of the PC to hang up until it decided to start responding again. After fighting with it for too long, I replaced it with a traditional harddrive which at least behaved as it was supposed to.

It was several years later before I tried another SSD, buying a relatively inexpensive 120GB drive that actually did live up to the hype.

Hmmmm, I'm probably misremembering the size now that you mention it. I'm also practically incapable of remembering when something was, but it would have been around the late 2000s - early 2010s. I do remember it held Windows plus 1-2 games, and I juggled around the games I played most from SSD to HDD and back.