Answer needed PLZ.

[Broady21.pb]

Hi all,

I was just wanting to know when it comes to SSD drives, are they the same as other drives? I mean if you buy a IDE/SATA drive and it's say 160gb you infact only get around 149gb of space that you can use, why is that? I mean if you was to fill your car with fuel and you wanted 30 litres and only got say 24 you wouldn't be to happy about that, so why is it the norm when it comes to HD's.

I am building a new rig and I just wanted to know if SSD are the same as other drives, as the price of them is still quite high and I want to know what would be the best drive to install.

 

[Broady21.pb]

Cheers for that,

I guess I will give SSD ago then, and thanks for letting me know about the bites issue as it was just one of them things that always puzzled me

 

[Broady21.pb]

Cheers for the advice guys, I will seek to get 2 SSD's then.

 

[Broady21.pb]

^ thanks, that makes more sense i guess. I am so out of date with all this new stuff As you can see from my sig, I am using really old gear at the mo.