Will a SSD drive make me go WOW?

Personally I'm waiting until 128gb is ~£200 for a decent drive (should have snapped up a Crucial drive whilst they were cheap)

Windows boot time doesn't interest me, I use S3 sleep mode, so my resume time is currently about 1 second anyway. I only ever reboot if a game/program/windowsupdate wants me to, which is very rarely
 
dmpoole said:
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
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Unless I am greatly mistaken the 64gig Kingston drives are old tech, you want the 40 and 80gig Kingstons which are basically intels drives with a sticker on them. I have the 80Gig Intel, and yes, it is pretty "WOW". It definatly makes my PC run smoother. Now I just need to change my [email protected] for an i7@just about anything, and my system will be pretty sweet again.
 
I'm spec'ing a new build and may as well chuck one of this SSDs in as well.

I've seen many people refer to putting the OS and programs onto the SSD - does that include games too?
 
teknokid said:
you could wait for sata 3 drives, although I have no idea how long you will be waiting, it could be a while
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Unless creed has a motherboard with SATA 3 already on it, if they even are in existence, he'd have to buy a SATA 3 capable motherboard whereas an SSD could be fitted now.
 
EddScott said:
I'm spec'ing a new build and may as well chuck one of this SSDs in as well.

I've seen many people refer to putting the OS and programs onto the SSD - does that include games too?
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I'm doing that, I have plenty of space for them so why not :)
 
Dont have sata 3 and wouldnt wait for it specifically, maybe be for next upgrade but i doubt i'd notice any difference between windows loading in 5 seconds or 2 :p Just dont want to spend ~£150 on 64GB now for it to then cost ~£150 for 128GB in a month or two's time :eek:

Sata 3 is only really useful in moving large files between drives tho right?
 
creed said:
Dont have sata 3 and wouldnt wait for it specifically, maybe be for next upgrade but i doubt i'd notice any difference between windows loading in 5 seconds or 2 :p Just dont want to spend ~£150 on 64GB now for it to then cost ~£150 for 128GB in a month or two's time :eek:
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Its not just about windows boot times.

Its about application loading and windows itself.

Fact is if you wait for technology you never buy anything.
 
if you can afford it then go for it, dont own one and wont for a while yet

when I boot pc (rarely as its also a media server for kids in the evening so generally always on) I roll a ciggy or make a brew, when I shut down I dont care how long it takes as I click shutdown, make sure win7 doesnt ask me to force due to progs open then switch monitor off and go sit on sofa/goto bed

if however I was to upgrade and had a decent wedge to do so then I would consider getting one as a boot drive and an f3 for storage
 
Is anyone finding their apps crash a lot more on an SSD? Since a fresh install onto my Intel X25-M G2 160GB, firefox crashes every now and then, and right now I'm crashing out of Counterstrike Source every time I join a server. These apps almost never crashed on my WD 320gb Sata II.. It could be a bad installation of windows, but I'm wondering if it could be an SSD issue.. anything which could be causing this?
 
gee3000 said:
Is anyone finding their apps crash a lot more on an SSD? Since a fresh install onto my Intel X25-M G2 160GB, firefox crashes every now and then, and right now I'm crashing out of Counterstrike Source every time I join a server. These apps almost never crashed on my WD 320gb Sata II.. It could be a bad installation of windows, but I'm wondering if it could be an SSD issue.. anything which could be causing this?
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With regards to Firefox have you upgraded to 3.6? As I am finding it crashes more than any other version I have used to date. BTW I don't have SSD's.
 
dmpoole said:
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.
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things that made me go WOW

upgrading to a cassette recorder from typing in 10,000 lines of code to play space invaders
upgrading from a cassette recorder to a disk drive
upgrading from a floppy disk to a 120mb hard disk


but to be honest nothing has made me really go WOW since then. :p
 
OK, so installed a Retail copy of Windows 7 onto a 64Gb Crucial M225 last night. Went very quickly! It's a massive improvement in not only performance (booting, launching programmes) over a 5 year old Raptor, but also in terms of noise. The Raptor was very noisy on seek and now there's silence. I'm pleased with my purchase.
 
I wouldn't go back to a mechanical disk now. My OCZ is so snappy; everything opens instantly even if you launch five or six apps at once.
 
"The Kingston SSDNow V Series 30GB Boot Drive is expected to reach shelves in February at a price of £90."

Meanwhile, the US price will be $80. Well hold on there fella, let me go get some lube at least...
 
I'm going to see what the best ones are when I visit the States towards the end of July, hopefully i'll be able to pick up a decent 160GB one for a good price.

Will be a most welcome change running Windows 7 on it.
What are the key things to look for with SSD's (i'm a bit out of the loop on them tbh)
 
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