Will a SSD drive make me go WOW?

If your building a new rig our looking for component upgrade a SSD is a good choice if you are ok at todays prices , load speeds are better, shut down and boot up times far better.

But got a shock when l checked the price of my OCZ Agility 120GB £311, l paid just over £200 last year for mine.

God you got to curse the Bankers and our Fearless Leader for the state of are £££££.
 
OLDPHART said:
God you got to curse the Bankers and our Fearless Leader for the state of are £££££.
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Or maybe curse Thatcher for screwing up our education system? :p

I thought high SSD and RAM prices were due to high flash chip pricing rather than a bad exchange rate? The weak pound is to blame for the i7 920 having not dropped a penny in over 12 months though, or 5830s coming out at higher prices than 5850s.
 
cambb said:
Not Wow but a great improvement. However it's just the norm now.
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Same here. I`ve been using an Intel 80gb G2 for about 5 months now. The "WOW" factor has now gone, but there is no way I`d go back to mechanical for my main boot drive. I`m putting together a fairly powerful gaming PC for a friend at the moment, and an SSD is included in the list. It would be rude not to.
 
I've just finished shadow copying my Windows 7 installation from my Intel X25-M 160gb to a new 2TB Samsung F3, and tbh once windows has settled in (takes twice as long but still no longer than a minute or so) I barely notice any difference in speed, let alone a £300 difference... The Samsung F3 is also very quiet, so I think for now I'm happy to get my £300 back and go back to mechanical until SSD prices sort themselves the **** out ^_^

Fully star swearies please
 
I have just got Win7 (finally) and also bought a Kingston 30gb SSD for it.

All I can say it is really quite fast. My boot up times have gone to around 15 seconds. Tiny little drive it is as well. Seemed pricey for something so small, but I now look forwards to the day they come down in price and I can get another for my games!
 
I recently bought a Intel X25-M 80GB, paid £180 for it (that made me wow a bit!) and the Win7 install took longer than my F1s for some reason.

BUT now i'm up and running, its very impressive - snappy, responsiveness in the OS, the loading speed of the OS (after clearing BIOS my OS loads as wuickly from cold as it did from hibernate previously).

i'd say if you have the surplus for the luxury you should get one, problem is the wow wears off quite quickly and you're back to craving more! Didnt notice a huge decrease in battlefield bad company 2 level load times, but that might be an ATI issue apparently, gonna try others tonight. But yeah, as a luxury it made me go wow!
 
I give this guy 10/10 for exageratting the difference between a Raptor and a SSD to extreme proportions.
To be fair I do know of people with pages of programs in their startup group who would appreciate this test

 
SSD's aren't overpriced per se, it's just that conventional HDD's are incredibly cheap (I remember conventional HDD's costing £'s per MEGABYTE, rather than today's GB's per £. And as with anything else, adding something fast to an already fast system (eg. enthusiast rigs) is going to have less of a perceivable performance increase than chucking it into I/O starved sloth of a laptop.

Just don't expect an SSD to be a life-changing experience. It makes a Windows 7 PC run as intended (imo), and it's one of the few upgrades that makes no noise, power demands or extra heat.
 
I've just added an OCZ Solid 2 Series 60GB SSD to my setup, and coming from raided velociraptors, the difference is very noticable!

Rather impressed :)
Word documents, iTunes and Google Chrome open instantly.

Now I'm left wondering what to use my Velociraptors for :p
 
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