Solid State Drives - **** me!

Eddie

Eddie

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Just got one today and good lord' was I wrong to wait this long!

If you're contemplating getting a SSD and are mainly having doubts due to the cost of them, then I can assure you that any feelings of guilt soon vanish when you switch the ****** on. :D
 
555BUK said:
Once you have owned an SSD, you will not go back to hdd.
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I was thinking the same, I seriously doubt I'd go back to my old hard drives now, SSDs seem just worlds apart.

The thing I couldn't get over (well, initially) when my new hard drive was posted through the letterbox :eek:, was just how small and light they are. I don't know what I was expecting exactly but I didn't think that what landed on my doormat was a hard drive that's for sure, I thought they got the order wrong. Obviously being in old hard drive mode, I sort of panicked a little when it landed on the floor, thinking well that's that buggered then. :D

It's the one upgrade where I have noticed the single biggest improvement to every day OS usage - gfx cards, RAM, etc, upgrades have all been good but this is such a vast improvement over the old drives.

Get one! You know you want to :D
 
I'm very tempted to go for a bigger one and stick the one I have in the laptop.

I suppose my curiosity has been satisfied for the time being and I should really wait for the price of the larger capacity ones to come down a bit, but...

Argh...Must. Resist. :D
 
Run the ATTO benchmark to see what speeds you're getting. :)

Personally, I think SSDs have caught on already, plenty people/manufacturers seem to be going that route. I think SSDs are here to stay and what's even better is they'll only get bigger, faster and more importantly, cheaper.
 
bfar said:
Yawn, no thanks! Subjective real world usage for me! It's definately running the way it's supposed to, I'm not worried about that. Great disk :)

As it stands, they're probably popular with high trans data centres and enthusiasts. No one else needs em atm unless they get cheaper and bigger. but then so will the data :(

I'd imagine it will be a long while before SSDs get a significant share of the market off HDDs. I believe they'll exist in tandom over the next 10-15 years. SSDs for speed, HDDs for storage. Some good hybrid products could really change the game.

SSDs are great, but I feel were being led to believe they're the second coming. They're not. They're a luxury untill they get cheaper.
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I know what you mean regarding 'yawn', it's not really my cup of tea either. I just ran it when I first got the drive to make sure it was set up and running correctly i.e. I was getting somewhere near the speeds I was supposed to be getting.

I think that once SSDs become cheaper and larger they will definitely replace mechanical HDDs, and I don't think that'll take 10-15 years to happen tbh, it'll be a couple more years at most.

Atm, I think the ideal partnership and cost/peformance balance is to use a SSD for the OS and apps and to use mechanical drives for storage.
 
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