Why is this forum not more excited about SSDs?

You can get 2 F1's & raid them at a cheap price, have great load times & still over 1tb drive!

You can't really mention noise when it comes to HDD's....Any non-watercooled graphics card will be louder.

CB
 
price and size.

I have 2x 1TB F1's in Raid0.. the throughput is massive comparative to SSDs, and they cost less than 64GB of SSDs.

Sure, the seek times are mighty impressive, but I'm all for bang/buck :)
 
Phil2008 said:
Well atm Im using 38gb on my windows drive, so I would need at least a 64gb sdd.
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I think I beat you... 36GB raptor for windows and games! (although it's a real limitation for later games.. so I got a 200GB for large games!)

For me it's predominately the write count issue that reduces the value (ie makes the high cost less appealing). I'd love to shove a 128GB in my MBP but as I use it pretty much day in-and-out (including work) it would die quickly..
 
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This forum might be full of enthusiasts with idle quad core computers but:

1) Quad core offers a tangible benefit in a few situations, even if for 95% of the time it's adding nothing. SSDs are too similar to hard drives: massively expensive with no real tangible improvement in performance.

2) Spending the equivalent money on a Velociraptor will get the user more storage, more speed and crucially for some, more e-peen.

At the moment, SSDs are interesting novelties and little more. Simply because of the reasons others have stated.
 
SSD`s give tangible benefits everytime you click the mouse or do a search. You`ve obviously never used one mrthingyx. "too similar to hard drives" in what way exactly!

I think excitement hasn`t took of yet because of price. As soon as prices come down and people start experiencing them first hand we won`t see mass praise. You can imagine how much better on SSD is compared to a mechanical drive, then you use one and it blows your mind. :)
 
lol they will blow my mind when they start outpacing mechanical drives on read/write transfer rates. It's not just price :)

6 months time that product will probably be on the market.
 
John24 said:
SSD`s give tangible benefits everytime you click the mouse or do a search. You`ve obviously never used one mrthingyx. "too similar to hard drives" in what way exactly!

I think excitement hasn`t took of yet because of price. As soon as prices come down and people start experiencing them first hand we won`t see mass praise. You can imagine how much better on SSD is compared to a mechanical drive, then you use one and it blows your mind. :)
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Of course I haven't used one. Because I don't have that kind of money to blow on that little storage. Disposable income isn't a problem, but perceived and tangible value is massively important to me.

Too similar to hard drives? No clear differentiation where transfer rates are concerned is kind of a big one. Sure, access times for stuff might be significantly increased, but from my experience, a wel-managed PC shouldn't cause that much grief anyway?

For clarification nd context, my PC spends most of its time either surfing the net or working with HD video.

When they become a viable alternative (i.e. I have to use one or they become more than an expensive folly) then I'll happily splash the cash. Not before, however.
 
Hopefully for my next main build I hope to go SSD, however, unless the price halves then it wont be happening. I have a 300Gb Velociraptor and SSD's are the next speed step up. They are waay too expensive at the moment and its not worth getting a small capacity one, 64Gb even just for Vista. I got rid of my 150Gb Raptor due to the small capacity. (Full install with all programs and games is ~110Gb). All my main storage is on my Home Server anyway.

£1 per gig before I consider it tbh.
 
Just took a look and I'm almost considering it for my laptop. If you take your latop around the world a lot then it suddenly becomes a REALLY good idea. I've had many colleagues whos drives failed on them, the work lost vs the price is something most companies and many people would find acceptable
 
mrthingyx said:
This forum might be full of enthusiasts with idle quad core computers but:

1) Quad core offers a tangible benefit in a few situations, even if for 95% of the time it's adding nothing. SSDs are too similar to hard drives: massively expensive with no real tangible improvement in performance.
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Also, despite what the OP says the Q6600 is and has been great value for some time now. Can't compare it to a SSD.
 
If I could get my hands on a 64GB SSD drive for around £60, then i'd be excited. They are just too expensive at the moment, I look forward to when prices come down.
 
Decent SSD brands already outdo mec HD`s on R/W. I`ll always recomend Mtron.

To say SSD`s have no benefits over mec drives just because their more expensive is a bit short sighted tbo.

However, I agree the price per gig is too much, atm an SSD spend has to be justified. My OS fits comfortably on a 16GB SSD and all the benifits more than make up for the lack of spare space.

When prices are at a point where even the casual surfer feels compfortable buying an SSD, that`s when you`ll see more exitement.
 
tbh the best place for SSD's right now are in laptops, because laptop hard disks don't remotely match SSD's in performance terms, and they can result in better battery life too.

SSD's are not so much the future for laptops, but the here and now the moment the prices drop.
 
bledd. said:
do you mean iram, or an ssd?

iram performance is awesome
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I Disagree, with SSD are just as quick, if not quicker in access and read/write and certainly more reliable.

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I paid £350 off ebay for 1 a samsung i think 64 gig i liked it and it was quick but not £350 quick when they come down to mainstream prices i will get one (sold it back on ebay for £350) :)
 
Not really use that much less power??? Are you high?

They use about 1W when active and 0.5W idle - much less than a velociraptor or scorpion....
 
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