solid state drives

[ineed2upgrade]

for a new build i have been looking at getting one of the 36gb samsung solid state drives for putting my operating system/main apps and a few games at a time on and have a few questios about the drives.
what do you do about defragmenting the drive or dont you have to?
do they fit in normal drive bays and connect up the same as hdd's?

 

[crazyDAJT]

Normal desktop HD's are 3.5” these are 2.5” so you will need an adapter. As for defrag, that's nothing to do with the drive just the way you use it, putting a file on you disk then putting in something after it and deleting it crates fragmentation.

the 16 and 32GB are IDE like old HD's

and the 64GB is SATA like new HD's

 

[Greenlizard0]

I was thinking of getting one of the 16GB models until I found that it was an IDE drive. And the Sata one is way out of my budget lol!

 

[TheVoice]

Bit-tech did a review of one, wasn't particularly impressive.