Anyone not using a SSD boot drive?

sam.wheale said:
I'm holding out the end of the month when I'm hoping to pick up a samsung 830 256gb kit for under £140, I'm just worried that the prices will drop again :D

I did hear that prices will rise in the near future, is there anything in that?
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idk,if prices did drop they wouldnt drop much from where they are now
 
I didn't have one at all up until very recently when I put together a new build. I just used to use sleep mode all the time on my old build so I could wake it up quickly. Tend to shut it down now at night since it boots up so fast when I turn it back on. I've got windows and steam on it and a few apps that I use a lot (mozilla etc). But...it's full already :(.
 
C64 said:
Nope don't see the point really I am happy wait 10 seconds longer to boot up or 10 seconds longer for a game to load.

People act like it's a good upgrade I just cant see how or why though.
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An upgrade I did for someone this morning running Windows XP

500GB HD took 3m 41s to get to login screen and by the time all the apps that she has started up it was a total of 7m 34s before Outlook opened (auto starts)

240GB SSD now takes 1m 20s to get to login screen and a total of 1m 50 seconds to for all her auto startups to get to the Outlook screen.

She's knocked over 5 minutes of her startup time just by changing the HD. In her case spending on an SSD was the best thing to upgrade.
 
wazza300 said:
you wont know how you managed without one once you buy an ssd!!!!!!!!

i have a 2tb samsung hdd with windows on and it takes me 1-2minutes to reach desktop

also have windows on an ssd and takes me 15-20seconds to reach fully working/loaded desktop

games dont seem to load much quicker or maps but for the os an ssd is simply fantastic

at current ssd prices,getting one in your pc is a no brainer imo
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yup!! dead right
 
Since owning an SSD I can't remember NOT being first into a multiplayer server. If anything, owning an SSD is annoying because you have to wait for all the non-SSD-owning riffraff to load the map before you can start killing them :D
 
tribz said:
An upgrade I did for someone this morning running Windows XP

500GB HD took 3m 41s to get to login screen and by the time all the apps that she has started up it was a total of 7m 34s before Outlook opened (auto starts)

240GB SSD now takes 1m 20s to get to login screen and a total of 1m 50 seconds to for all her auto startups to get to the Outlook screen.

She's knocked over 5 minutes of her startup time just by changing the HD. In her case spending on an SSD was the best thing to upgrade.
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yea i changed my mind recently and bought an m4 because it was going cheap i wouldn't pay a premium for one though i don't consider it an essential upgrade more a luxury
 
tribz said:
An upgrade I did for someone this morning running Windows XP

500GB HD took 3m 41s to get to login screen and by the time all the apps that she has started up it was a total of 7m 34s before Outlook opened (auto starts)

240GB SSD now takes 1m 20s to get to login screen and a total of 1m 50 seconds to for all her auto startups to get to the Outlook screen.

She's knocked over 5 minutes of her startup time just by changing the HD. In her case spending on an SSD was the best thing to upgrade.
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to be fair that must be a really bad hard drive thats never been defragmented etc my 640gb wd black boots up in about 30 seconds hang on i'll time it for ya right now this is only a 90mb / sec drive

okay just timed it cold boot from power switch to loaded desktop is 43 seconds and thats a pretty clogged up drive it's the western digital black 640gb sata 2, if it just had a few things on it like a ssd no doubt it would be closer to 30 seconds

But yea the faster windows install time I agree is a godsend I suppose
 
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Still using a 500Gb Samsung drive, built the machine about 3 years ago so just about to put in an SSD, new gpu and extra RAM.
Looking forward to seeing the difference it makes :-)
 
cwhitehead said:
Exactly this, i dont get the facination with them? now the prices are dropping it's starting to be maybe worth buying one just as a gadget which you dont need, but if you cant wait an extra 10 seconds for a pc to boot there something wrong with you.
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Same here, boot up times are not really an issue.

However, I am a little tempted to go SSD for doing development work (Visual Studio) which is what I use my PC for the most.
I do also play some games from time to time (if I have the time), but with a Steam folder of almost 500GB, SSDs might be an overly pricey option. Though if I uninstall all the games I've never played, I'd probably get it down to less than 100GB! Damn Steam sales...
 
just have your operating system on an ssd,games can be left on your original hdd,use it as storage,things are much quicker/instant when the os is installed onto an ssd
 
I've got a 120GB SSD in my laptop and a secondary HDD and external HDD for storage. When I open iTunes I no longer have chance to do anything else before I can chose a song. Along with my LCD TV the SSD is one of two purchases I've seen a notable improvement in user experience and been very happy with it.

Need a new HDD really as I've filled my 1TB with films, I have no money at the moment though :( I'm just going to wait until I'm loaded, get a second monitor so I can ditch my laptop and get a nice little HTPC unit, this will be at least a £500 jobbie though. Hopefully I'll win the lottery tonight or Tuesday :)
 
Smit said:
Still using a 500GB drive in my laptop and probably won't switch to an SSD any time soon. Doesn't bother me that windows takes almost 1 minute to load and I don't game, pretty much only used for browsing the internet and MS Office.
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Makes a big difference with Office (Access mainly) not to mention data safety.
 
It might be "only" 10 seconds faster to boot with an SSD (I reckon it's more like 30 seconds as an overall average), but apps feel a lot more responsive, surfing seems a tad quicker, not to mention virus scans, updates, registry cleans etc being a lot quicker.

In other words, SSDs are well worth the £.
 
Not using it for boot, but using it for smart response.

Probably not as fast as having it as my boot drive - but then at least it gives a boost to my most used programs - rather than just the O/S. Really don't see the point in having a quicker boot time when my most used stuff is still on the HDD.
 
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