Will a SSD drive make me go WOW?

SexyGreyFox · 13 Feb 2010 at 12:09

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

SexyGreyFox · 13 Feb 2010 at 12:26

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!

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.

SexyGreyFox · 13 Feb 2010 at 17:22

stulid said:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=MvBKB2NndbI&client=mv-google

Maybe try using www if it don't work, I'm not at home, but the above plays fine on this phone.

Some very impressive videos from this guy, a big WOW.

This post has made me go WOW what is this to do with SSD?

SexyGreyFox · 13 Feb 2010 at 21:04

Jamesdavid3 said:
they are not worth the money at the moment.

Why?
Bearing in mind my first 40 meg hard drive cost £450.

SexyGreyFox · 14 Feb 2010 at 12:54

Let's get 2 points clear on this -

1) the drive would not be for storage, only as a boot drive.
2) My 80 gig Raptor cost around the same price so £150 for 64 gig seems quite reasonable for something that is supposed to be so fast.

but will I go WOW?

Photoshop CS4 loading in 4 seconds doesn't sound impressive when my current setup does it in 6 seconds however one poster says it takes 1 second on is!
However Windows virtually loaded before your screen as responded sounds good now I've gone a bit 'green' and I actually turn my PC off sometimes.

SexyGreyFox · 14 Feb 2010 at 15:22

simulatorman said:
I'm sure that you have done your research.

This is probably the only item in all the years I've been buying stuff I haven't actually done any research and hoping the 'research' comes from this thread.
When jamesdavid3 gave his comment that swayed me to buying one because he normally posts crap

SexyGreyFox · 18 Feb 2010 at 23:35

simulatorman said:
Have you got one and installed it yet?

Not yet.

SexyGreyFox · 23 Feb 2010 at 19:50

Today I went to OCUK and bought the Kingston 64gb.
It's not quite WOW but I'll give it a Wow.

SexyGreyFox · 25 Feb 2010 at 07:37

silversurfer said:
upgrading from a floppy disk to a 120mb hard disk

You must have been rich.
My first hard drive was 40 meg and cost £450 and it was so big I didn't know how I was ever going to fill it.
I even partitioned it into 5 drives.

SexyGreyFox · 3 Mar 2010 at 12:54

I can now confirm that the Kingston 64 gig now makes me go WOW especially seeing how fast Sonar Production Studio, Adobe Photoshop and other programs load in.
Everything is way quicker - even my t'internet seems quicker.