SSD Price increases

Stonedofmoo · 2 Apr 2010 at 09:09

Broken Hope said:
but I'm guessing they know people will pay the prices.

mmm but will they though? I'd like one, but really £250-300 is a lot of money to shave a few seconds off my PCs boot time so I'm in no rush. SSD's in the desktop market just aren't that important imo.

413x · 2 Apr 2010 at 09:45

i will only buy once these get to 300GB at £120 for a good one,

the extra seconds are not worth it when you only boot your computer once a day

Lakeland · 2 Apr 2010 at 10:31

its not boot times that makes these great, everything happens faster, loading programs, surfing the net and installing programs, the whole user experience is just silky smooth

FoxEye · 2 Apr 2010 at 11:36

al4x said:
i will only buy once these get to 300GB at £120 for a good one,

the extra seconds are not worth it when you only boot your computer once a day

I haven't booted my PC since the on/off switch broke some time last year

I'm really hoping S3 suspend doesn't use much power!

Zarf · 2 Apr 2010 at 19:36

Lakeland said:
its not boot times that makes these great, everything happens faster, loading programs, surfing the net and installing programs, the whole user experience is just silky smooth

Exactly. Boot times are just one aspect of the overall improvement in user experience.

CurlyWhirly · 2 Apr 2010 at 20:28

JasonM said:
weak pound is also why fuel so expensive.

Actually it's because of the ever increasing fuel duty and VAT levied on it by the government

Impy77 · 2 Apr 2010 at 20:31

CurlyWhirly said:
Actually it's because of the ever increasing fuel duty and VAT levied on it by the government

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8598369.stm

CurlyWhirly · 2 Apr 2010 at 20:55

Impy77 said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8598369.stm

Yes but the falling pound doesn't make as much difference as the 3p (plus 17.5% VAT) rise in fuel duty.

It's only now that the pound has fallen where as petrol has been going up for years with increased tax.

Anyway, I myself will be upgrading to a SSD but not until the prices come down if this happens :confused:

413x · 2 Apr 2010 at 22:34

the seconds you save [bang] just isnt worth the money [buck] for me atm, it rather put it to a new monitor/gfx card etc

Perfect_Chaos · 4 Apr 2010 at 03:33

Got my 128gb Falcon last summer when they were on offer for £250, and even now they are still over 300 quid. Looks like prices are rising on a lot of computer stuff at the moment.

.Lethal · 4 Apr 2010 at 04:10

It ended up being out of my price range when it came to building my PC recently...

hyperst · 4 Apr 2010 at 04:34

I know I will not buy at current prices, when they first came out I thought , I will wait this one out, let the tech get up to speed and buy it when all the bugs are ironed out, the new sata 3 is out and so is the new ssd's that use it, kinda makes all the sata 2 spec ssd's old spec rather quickly lol

Jimmy23 · 4 Apr 2010 at 05:15

They really do increase your pc performance more so than just booting up

although i understand why people currently dont want to pay the premium

Perfect_Chaos · 4 Apr 2010 at 06:59

Jimmy23 said:
They really do increase your pc performance more so than just booting up although i understand why people currently dont want to pay the premium

I actually think i got more of a speed increase for loading/opening stuff from my SSD than when i upgraded my whole computer

one of the best overall upgrades you can get imo, install of win 7 takes something like 17 mins from what i remember.. much faster than doing it on a normal HDD. Also getting into a game online is very fast

Jotunkaiser · 4 Apr 2010 at 08:29

whats a good alternative for a gaming HD? because these SSD's are crazy and I use over 128gb for system/games/apps lol >< so it would be a good few 300-500 quid for what Id need, seems abit steep.

Perfect_Chaos · 4 Apr 2010 at 09:23

Jotunkaiser said:
whats a good alternative for a gaming HD? because these SSD's are crazy and I use over 128gb for system/games/apps lol >< so it would be a good few 300-500 quid for what Id need, seems abit steep.

Maybe samsung F3.. or a cheap SSD but i'm not sure if they are much good.

Stonedofmoo · 4 Apr 2010 at 16:55

Perfect_Chaos said:
I actually think i got more of a speed increase for loading/opening stuff from my SSD than when i upgraded my whole computer

one of the best overall upgrades you can get imo, install of win 7 takes something like 17 mins from what i remember.. much faster than doing it on a normal HDD. Also getting into a game online is very fast

Sorry but I've used a SSD PC, they are fast but after you've been wowed by it for a bit it ceases to be important. What's the use of getting into an online game faster than everyone else if the round restarts when everyone is in the game anyhow... which all modern games do?

And this idea of waiting around for stuff to load just doesn't happen if you have lots of RAM, everything is cached. If I click on IE for example it just appears that instant, the joy of having lots of cheap RAM and an OS that makes use of it.

SSD is unquestionably the future, but it costs far too much today for a small benefit compared to say a cheap RAID 0 setup.

twitch · 4 Apr 2010 at 18:16

Though I agree they cost loads of dosh..

They arn't quite as good as a cheap raid 0 setup

The Seq writes are as good but it's not the write speed that you look for, for a fast and responsive system
On left a C300 and on right 2 500G samsung F3's in raid 0 on a smallish partition