SSD Solid State Drives

[Big.Wayne]

I like everything about them
Lightning fast
low power= less heat
Silent
No moving parts to wear so should be reliable
Firmware upgradable for faster read/write times

Any drawbacks, Whats the trade off is there any??

i suppose there OK if your willing to part your cash for them...if not you could buy a 1TB normal HDD for less and be more patient...loading time who cares! (unless its stupidly slow but then thats your PC)

price and capacity...

one 250gb SSD is £730
you could have 4 velociraptors for that price, with some change.

I think they are very expensive when compared to regular drives, the only problem with normal 3.5" drives is they use a lot of power (10w-12w on average) so the SSD has a big advantage there however you loose capacity big time.

I'm done with 3.5" drives but I'm not prepared to pay the huge asking prices for SSD yet so what to do . . . .

Buy some state of the art 2.5" hard drives of course! 2x 320GB SATA-II drives for around £120, works well for me, fast, extremely low powered and plenty of space for all my music and videos etc and fast enough to install your O/S on and run games from etc . . . .

Will grab an SSD in the future for O/S I reckon (intel ones looks really nice) but 2.5" laptop drives offer the best low powered bang for buck right now!

Oh and VISTA loading times, anyone who pays out good money to have their O/S load a few seconds faster has more money than sense!

 

[Phil2008]

hibernate has the boot screen

Yeah hybrid sleep uses S3 (Suspend to Ram), but even tho the memory is still active, it dont use any more power then the normal shut down does.

If you do have power failure while its in hybrid sleep, no problem, cos it stores what ever is in the mem to hdd aswell, so it will pull the info of the hdd like hibernate, if the powers been lost.

 

[csmager]

hibernate has the boot screen

Should be a different boot screen saying 'Windows is Resuming...' with the dark green aurora crap behind it though.

 

[Energize]

I think they are very expensive when compared to regular drives, the only problem with normal 3.5" drives is they use a lot of power (10w-12w on average) so the SSD has a big advantage there however you loose capacity big time.

More like 8W, insignificant though considering it's around 7p per kwh. 2.5" HDD's are slower and more expensive, doesn't make economical sense.