What is the point of SSD?

When I used to install Fireworks I had to stop it opening PNGs by default cos I hated having to wait ages before I could simply view an image. I didn't have to change this after installing on an SSD cos it starts up so quickly. :)
 
DragonQ said:
When I used to install Fireworks I had to stop it opening PNGs by default cos I hated having to wait ages before I could simply view an image. I didn't have to change this after installing on an SSD cos it starts up so quickly. :)
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This is so annoying, you think you're going to open it in windows and then the fireworks logo pops up.

Would be nice if i had the cash to blow on an SSD.
 
I've recently switched to an ssd (went from 640GB WD Black to Crucial C300 128GB) and damn its so much faster. Not only does windows boot faster, its soo nice for the os to be usable as soon as its loaded. Applications are a lot faster to load.

I can imagine it makes a huge difference in laptops.
 
I've just been looking at the Seagate Hybrid drives. These look like they have close to an SSD drive's speed for a lot less cost. I may need to get another drive, am leaning towards one of these, won't entertain a true SSD for a second, don't see the point.
 
i got one on my laptop, as an IT bod, i was was for ever booting it and shuting it down, and it was taking a 2 min+ on a 6 month old install of 7... got an SSD nd now it's about 30-45 seconds (depending if i'm main or battery)

i then use my old drive as a USB disk with all my crap that i need. is much faster for me, but then i'm starting up and shutting down about 5-10 times a day, so save my self quite a bit of time....

Power wise it's slightly worce, as the SSD doesn't "spin down", i get about 10-20 minutes less run time on battery, but i can load stuff quicker... so its a trade off i'm happy with !
 
i brought a patriot p-100 ssd at first a i was wanting to try what everyone was raving on about, found it to be biggest pile of **** ever was slower then a normal hdd

then i read up about that and found that they was a peice of **** so i sold it and got myself an intel one for like twice the money and never looked back since, these things are like rockets loading up windows and programs, i can now put my computer on sleep mode at night, move the mouse in the morn and bang its booted up instantly :)
 
When I got my (pretty average, mainstream) Intel X25M-80Gb SSD, it was by far and away the BIGGEST increase in performance I have ever had especially for everyday use.

This on its own makes it the best price/performance piece of hardware i've ever bought. It will improve performance for everything you do.

People spend £300+ on a GPU that you only use playing games or folding etc, another £50 on another 4Gb ram when maximum used is around 2.5-3Gb for the most part, a new £800 6 core processor for playing games that only use 3-4 cores efficiently... £150 for a good SSD is the most sensible purchase you could make, even coming from a sucker for new tech (like me).

In fact i'd go as far to say that my SSD purchase was the first time I didnt get bitten by the marketing animal. Worth every penny.
 
If you are getting an SSD make sure its a good one. I have one in my laptop and its really slow. Took over an hour to install bioshock on it and while it is writing my entire laptop will randomly hang for up to a minute
 
nataku17 said:
i have an SSD in my laptop =/ i'm sure it's slower than the average HDD
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If it used to be fast and has begun slowing down then if it has trim support you need to leave it idle for a few hours.

SSD's are a little gimmicky in my eyes. Not to say if I had the spare money I wouldn't have one. They will drop in price like all technology does and the technology on them will improve making them easier to maintain.
 
lol people saying firefox , word , notepad etc load quicker.

programs that load in seconds anyway :S when my hdd wwas a bootdrive with bootimer i was getting full os load times of around 73 seconds (full boot load as in once the cpu starts to idle its loaded)

theres still better places a lot of people can spend the extra money in there budget like that 70+ quid is better put towards a gfx card etc if your budgeting £700 or so on an pc
 
arknor said:
lol people saying firefox , word , notepad etc load quicker.

programs that load in seconds anyway :S when my hdd wwas a bootdrive with bootimer i was getting full os load times of around 73 seconds (full boot load as in once the cpu starts to idle its loaded)
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Yes, that's because they have gone from loading in seconds, to loading almost instantly in many cases. Some examples are better than others, Chrome was always pretty much instant anyway, but Firefox and IE were always quite slow. Not any more. Word can take several seconds, at work 10-15 before it's usable. On an SSD, I open word and can literally start type straight away. Oh and my boot time to browsing the web is around the 20 second mark ;)

It may not sound much quicker, but over the course of a day it makes a difference and increases productivity. No wait times, now wouldn't that be nice in everything we did?[/QUOTE]

arknor said:
theres still better places a lot of people can spend the extra money in there budget like that 70+ quid is better put towards a gfx card etc if your budgeting £700 or so on an pc
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Well that's all subjective isn't it, as it purely depends on what you use your PC for. Why spend any more than £30 on GFX if you don't play games? I'd argue anyway that you would see more everyday benefit from a good SSD than a top end GFX card and the SSD will cost you less.

As has been said, how can anyone justify an upgrade from a 6 month old CPU or GFX card? Are they really going to see much performance increase with the latest models? An extra few FPS in games that were already doing over 60, what's th point in that? At least with an SSD you will see immediate performance gains in almost everything you do.
 
I'd get 2x 160Gb and put 'em in RAID 0 if I had the money. Best I could really afford is a single 80Gb and that isn't worth it imo. So, yeah, I'll be waiting for the price/storage ratio to improve a good bit further. Perhaps next Xmas at the earliest.
 
Well that's all subjective isn't it, as it purely depends on what you use your PC for. Why spend any more than £30 on GFX if you don't play games? I'd argue anyway that you would see more everyday benefit from a good SSD than a top end GFX card and the SSD will cost you less.

As has been said, how can anyone justify an upgrade from a 6 month old CPU or GFX card? Are they really going to see much performance increase with the latest models? An extra few FPS in games that were already doing over 60, what's th point in that? At least with an SSD you will see immediate performance gains in almost everything you do.
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no one said 6month old :confused:
im going off budgets i often see on the forums for spec me's 600-700 seems to be the most frequent spec me budgets when your spending that much its hard to justify an extra100+ when a good hdd costs 35 ish and the SSD money would more often thamn not be better used elsewhere.

firefox for me is alike a second , even photoshop is only around 10seconds until i can click all of the buttons.

got an ssd in a laptop just because it came with a low 5200rpm drive though
 
arknor said:
no one said 6month old :confused:
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It was used as an example, much as your budget was, nothing more :)

I agree yes, on this forum of mostly enthusiasts, gaming enthusiasts as well, that an SSD in a budget of £600-£700 might be difficult. But again, it's still very subjective and personally I'd happily squeeze a 64GB SSD into that PC and shave a little off somewhere, it can be easily done. As I said in a previous post, if the price:capacity ratio was a little better, this wouldn't even be a discussion topic.
 
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