When should you upgrade your SSD? Mine is a 160GB that does

>>60923736
you have some extra money you don't mind spending? upgrade now.

When SMART shows it's dying.

You should have upgraded a year ago when memory prices were at their lowest

Higher capacity ssds are usually faster. Upgrade when you need to like any other electronic

>>60924405
Current trends are going the way of slower, but higher capacity drives.

>>60925267
Not really, any reputable ssd over 256gb is already maxing sata

>>60923736
I don't use much on my home desktop, a 120GB SSD is sufficient for my OS and installed packages.
For videos and games and other media I use platter HDDs which are fast enough with far larger cappacity at the same cost.

Any games which heavily use the hard disk are generally poorly optimized at best you would get faster loading times, mostly benefit from an SSD when it comes to boot times since I shutdown/reboot my PC a lot, and to speed up certain applications loading to RAM.