What is the point of SSD?

Programs load up quicker, windows loads up quicker, windows shuts down quicker, memory paging quicker, which is awesome on a resource-strapped notebook where hard drives generally suck at everything (power consumption, access time, read / write speeds, noise).

Makes the whole windows experience a lot smoother. A lot of people who diss SSD's never tried one, so take their input with a grain of salt.

Sure they are expensive, and people just look at the bytes per pound, which imo isn't really the point of SSDs at least right now.

One 60-120 GB SSD for OS and programs, Hard Drives for storage and there's no going back. That's a £100 expense, which does the job nicely for me.
 
as many others said, everything is more snappier on SSD.
Mine SSD died not long ago and while waiting for a new one, I had to reinstal my system on normal HDD....and impressed im ...NOT ;)

I got so used to boot times, and startup apps to load that now everytime I boot my PC im getting angry for waiting so long to OS finish loading ;)


and SSD makes huge diffeence if you have to use lets say Photoshop as I do...copy 50-70MB image file to ssd, double click and in 3-5sec its open :) (most of this time takes Photoshop to load)
 
im pondering getting one, but id need to get a pci-e one, or some sata controller card as im out of sata ports :(

the small size of what i could afford would annoy me aswell :/
 
The more I read threads like this the more I get put off actually, I boot my pc twice a day, once in the morn and once in the evening.. the only thing that annoys me with waiting is game load times.. and unless I got a 160gb + is spend more time arranging what goes there than I'd ever save in program loading times

See I'm used to my 600gb wd vr raid 0 array with loads of space for 210 combined price, makes it hard to justify an ssd with all the faff
 
I came from a WD Caviar Black, which is fairly fast for a HDD, but I've had my SSD for a few months now and now I have my computer how I like it for normal everyday use, I cant really tell much of a difference. I dont think OS load times is 20 seconds quicker, maybe 5 at most. I have noticed it does shut down fairly quick though, and I suppose opening a few things may be slightly quicker.

I may try going back to a HDD and loading OS on there, and see if I cant see the difference clearer.
 
SSD's arent storage drives, at least not at the moment.

If you need a large drive to hold music and media files, use a normal hard drive. If you want a speedy setup for your games, use Raid 0.

If you want a super responsive OS with no more annoying hourglasses or having to wait for ages on boot up with the loading cursor for around a minute, get yourself an SSD. 64 Gb is plenty to serve as a Windows + driver disk, the crucial C300 being an awesome buy at <£100. I have 15 Gb free left on mine on top of windows 7, drivers, and whatever is required in my docs for saved games and whatever else.

I went from using a pair of unraided F3s to a C300 for windows and the F3s in Raid 0 storing all my games, I dont have to wait for anything to load while using windows, and my game loading times improved enough to the point that I dont recommend buying a larger SSD for games when you can get two F3s for so cheap. I wont ever be going back to running my OS off anything but a 6 Gb/s SSD drive.

SSDs larger than 64 Gb are a nice luxury for anyone that can afford them. For everyone else else, getting a 64 Gb Sata III C300 and running windows off it will make a massive difference to your PC's speed in everyday tasks. I dont recommend wasting money on a Sata II SSD, they arent cheaper enough, and Sata III is backwards compatible.

Serraph said:
I may try going back to a HDD and loading OS on there, and see if I cant see the difference clearer.
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You would only be able to tell the difference unless the HDD is really full. An empty HDD with only windows installed will be very fast and responsive, but after you start filling them up they lose a lot of speed and begin loading up slower and giving a lot of lag while windows starts up. On an SSD, it doesnt matter how full the drive is, it will always run at full speed.
 
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The more I read threads like this the more I get put off actually, I boot my pc twice a day, once in the morn and once in the evening.. the only thing that annoys me with waiting is game load times.. and unless I got a 160gb + is spend more time arranging what goes there than I'd ever save in program loading times

See I'm used to my 600gb wd vr raid 0 array with loads of space for 210 combined price, makes it hard to justify an ssd with all the faff
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In your case it makes little sense for a SSD, until you find the OS sluggish. Maybe next time you upgrade / install a new OS, it would be worth considering. I still think a £100 expense is worth the extra comfort. I agree, little point in high capacity SSDs imo, you're better of with fast RAID HD for game loads if that's really a bother.
 
olivier renault said:
In your case it makes little sense for a SSD, until you find the OS sluggish. Maybe next time you upgrade / install a new OS, it would be worth considering. I still think a £100 expense is worth the extra comfort. I agree, little point in high capacity SSDs imo, you're better of with fast RAID HD for game loads if that's really a bother.
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i kind of think the same more and more, the only time i wait for loading is fire fox but thats inet speed not HDD, boot up, when i usually do something else, [have a LOT of start up apps] and as i said before .. games, my raid 0 array is half full [os, games, music, docs, programs] my multi TB drives are just blu ray and archive

with an SSD without games all id benefit from is OS loading it seems, [even photoshop isnt really an issue on the raid velociraptor array],

i guess it isnt worth it and this thread has saved me some money, im going to need 200+ gb space to be happy with an ssd
 
there is a point in large ssds, we would all use em if we could afford them :D

i tend to boot up once or twice a day, and only firefox takes a min to load fully, as i have FAR too many tabs open :x
 
I don't look at SSDs as anything special It's more like HDDs suck so badly in comparison. So SSDs are really just what the performance shoud be about. A necessity a preformance standard - not an over-hyped luxury. Maybe it doesn't look that way to everyone but it will eventually - in couple of years when SSDs become mainstream. The biggest difference is definitely in I/O multitasking, try couple of apps read/write HDD at the same time. On HDD it's easy to get system to its knees. Like in the old joke where Bill Gates demonstrates new multitasking capabilities but you first have to wait till floppy formatting is finished. On SSD you won't even notice that something is going on as the system remains responsive all the time.
 
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