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Just thought I'd pop my head in here and post a semi-troll thread. Well more of an opinionated rant crossed with a question really...

It seems to me that SSD's are a waste of time and money. Yay its a new(ish) consumer technology (actually been around in the server market for over a decade) and yes its faster than mechanical drives, oh and it makes my epeen twitch slightly.. But, and this is a big one... Its...

1. Poor value for money
2. Only really works properly with Vista +
3. Unreliable

So lets take a quick look on ocuk... Hmm. About £200 for 128GB of SSD storage? But I could buy 1x 3TB, or even 4 x 1TB mechanical HDD's and still have change for that! In fact with a 4 x 1TB solution I could quite happily run RAID 10 and waste a couple of them for a fault tolerant porn library, just for the sake of it, and still be better off...

So my **** loads a few seconds slower than yours, but once it loads it runs at exactly the same fps (talking games here but same for many other apps too). So why should I bother getting an SSD? The only real use that I can see for them right now is in laptops, where they have a weight and power consumption advantage on top of speed, which I admit is great for working away from the mains...

Flame away! Tears of rage if possible please, they are especially tasty. Salty keeper.

 

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I think you'll find current Flash memory is more reliable that any mechanical HDD.

And as for value for money - it's still new Tech so that's to be expected. Once it's becomes mainstream then prices will drop considerably.

I think you'll find (not that you really care, but still...) that I've got legacy systems running DOS from the early 90's that are still using their original HDD's. So considering that current Flash memory is at best only a few years old, its still unproven how accurate manufacturers reliability claims are. And honestly I've heard and read sooo much bull from manufacturers and vendors over the years that I don't believe anything they say anymore.

Yes its a new tech and its expected that there will be a premium for it, but this stuff? In its current form its several orders of magnitude more expensive, ridiculously more so.

I kind of respect the argument that goes "I bought it just for the performance...", that's all fine. But I still maintain that for any reasonable purchaser its largely pointless.

 

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@ cmndr_andi

If you actually read the OP properly you'll see that I already recognise they are good for mobile devices. I don't contest this.

Define value for money? Well its certainly not just value per GB. Its also little things like for the same price as a single SSD I can run 4 x 1TB drives in RAID 5, getting near RAID 0 performance (not that much slower than SSD tbh) along with about 3.5 times more space, fault tolerance, and still have change left over.

Mechanical drives operate and perform equally well across all operating systems, regardless of age. Oh and not just Microsoft OS either. Its yet another detractor from SSD value for money tbh.

I'm not primarily anything, but this is a consumer level website and the most common user here is most likely to be a gamer. For professional use most of the time I'd still argue for cheap and reliable mechanical HDD RAID storage over SSD's.

Its only if I was running some really heavy mission critical database activity, like the back end of Eve Online or something, that I'd start to consider solid state storage. But that's way beyond the scope of this discussion.