Will a SSD drive make me go WOW?

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I've had a few WOW factors over the years including :
Upgrading from a 386SX20 to a DX266
Upgrading from 4 meg of RAM to 16 meg of RAM
Upgrading from an AMD Athlon 2800+ to a P4 3.6
but to be honest nothing has made me really go WOW since then.

So viewers, will a SSD drive (Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 64gig) make me go WOW?
If so I'll be going to Overclockers on Monday.

My system is now based around a QuadCore AMD Phenom, 3.4 MHz
 
fordypaul said:
I cannot see it, not at the 64GB size as you will have to think too hard about what you will keep on there!
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I have 2 1TB drives so no problem with storage.
My partitioned 80 gig C:drive has only got 30 gig on it and that's with all my hefty music programs and Adobe stuff.
64 gig would be massive for a boot drive.

So back to the same question.
 
Would being able to lauch Photoshop in 4 seconds make you go wow?

Would being able to boot into windows 7 before the animation has finished make you go wow?

Would actually being able to use the machine within moments of logging in make you go wow?

It's one of the biggest single upgrades you can make to a modern PC especially if you use your PC for productivity tasks. Definately a WOW so much so that all my PCs now have SSD's and I hate my work laptop :p
 
Certainly wouldn't make me go wow as the only time I shut down my PC is to change a component or reboot to improve my overclock.
 
I'm interested in this question too,

Have seen youtube clips of some guy opening 106 programs and load COD MW2 in something like 10secs, made me go WOW.

Edit. Looked again and he actually has some extreme multiple ssd raid array, and not just one ssd.
 
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Well I have an 80gig intel drive and photoshop cs4 launches in 1 second.

Yes it wil make you go wow. You know how things open quicker once they've been loaded, ie once they are in memory. It's like that all the time!
 
fordypaul said:
I cannot see it, not at the 64GB size as you will have to think too hard about what you will keep on there!
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Don't worry about the size of the SSD. I have used 50GB for Windows 7, Photoshop CS4, MS Office Professional, the gigabyte Monster FSX (16.6GB), other MS software, a pile of utilities, camera and radio software. My data is kept on other discs.

The WOW factor for me has been Windows start-up/shutdown and program load times.
 
It won't so much make you go "Wow!", as stop you going "ARRRGH This is taking too long!".

SSD's make your computers less annoying to use.

is there a way of copying a drive completely to an ssd ie dont have to reinstall windows?
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Yes, cloning a drive.
Lots of apps to do this, the simplest to use is Acronis Trueimage.
 
I have the same drive and yes it made me go wow and bore people endlessly about it.
I can't remember the last time something made such a clear difference to my system.
 
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