Anyone considered solid state yet?

[Energize]

Indeed, the latency of the drive is what matters when loading applications not throughput.

 

[Olly]

I just ordered a 16gb one, havent had it delivered yet though. The idea is to have just the vista boot OS, apps and games can go on my 750gb.

 

[Kobrakai]

My windows directory is currently 14.4GB on Vista 64Bit so 16GB is cutting it a bit close. Especially since you never get the full size of a drive.

 

[Olly]

ok thats interesting !

 

[sosrandom]

if depends which ones you get some(expensive) have 100mb read write rates and then raided there very impressive

 

[Talrinys]

Exactly Sosrandom

It will get cheaper and better with time, already showing much more meaning than at first

 

[Energize]

My windows directory is currently 14.4GB on Vista 64Bit so 16GB is cutting it a bit close. Especially since you never get the full size of a drive.

Vlite will massivley shrink that install size. I would never install vista without it, cuts out all the bloatware.

 

[sosrandom]

SUPER TALENT SSD32GB25, would set you back about £800 for 2 raided, 64GB is plenty of space for an OS and a apps & some games games, (12gb+ for crysis, 8Gb for CoD4 etc)
60 read 45 write sustainable each, now that matches some single drives and you get a bigger boost out of raid. My OS + Apps (like photoshop etc) comes to 19GB

There are many plus's but the main con is the price but thats just a time thing, the new ipod tought uses 16GB flash and its tiny compared to the 20GB 4G one.

 

[sosrandom]

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-26.html

Just remember Blue ray drives were over $1000 a while ago, ok so were not talking 2008 getting rid of traditional drives but who knows (someone I assume)

 

[Energize]

I think that by 2009, solid state drives will be a viable alternative to hard drives. Though they maybe more expensive.