Features - QOTW: Do you use an SSD in your main PC?

[Noxvayl]

I've got an OCZ Vertex 2E 120Gb that I bought in Sept 2010 for £215. It was expensive but so worth it, the load times for games as well as Windows make my machine feel like a super computer in comparison to what it was like before. I would never go back to conventional hard drive to run an OS.

Convinced the company I used to work for to get one to boost speeds and my boss couldn't believe the load times. I recommend them to everyone that asks me for advice on computer components and I want to purchase a separate one just for games now, but that will have to wait.

[Jimbo75]

I have a 64GB Vertex 2 in my main pc - it has just enough room for whatever game I'm currently playing on top of windows and all the apps I use. Honestly though I hardly notice much difference in gaming with it, but it sure loads Windows and all the startup progs so much faster (Steam, CCC etc).

[Badbonji]

Definitely, I cannot see myself not including an SSD in a new build from now on. I use a 256GB M4 in the desktop and 64GB in my server, it just feels so much more responsive. The only annoying thing is now when I use my laptop it feels very sluggish, especially due to being 5400rpm...

[Brewster0101]

Yes, one 128GB M4 in main PC.... If it dies it would be replaced as quick as possible, couldn't be without one now.

[Anaerin]

Not at the moment. Mainly because of the expense and small size. But I'm planning a major upgrade, and with it is a 60GB SSD (About all I can budget for at the moment). The main problem is the price/capacity ratio. 60GB SSDs come in at around $150CAD, and for the same price you can pick up a 2TB HDD.
Still, it'll be interesting to see what kind of difference it makes.

[Hoonigan]

As other's have said, you don't really appreciate the speed of them until you use a PC without one..

I wouldn't even consider a laptop or PC without one these days. By far the best thing since sliced bread

[Malphas]

I've had one for about a year now. Pretty much what edgards70 said; you're not going to notice an incredible improvement, it's more a case of everything being almost imperceptibly that little bit more responsive - until you switch back to a mechanical hard drive and it drives you nuts how sluggish everything is.

[crossy]

QOTW: Do you use an SSD in your main PC?

Not in my main PC - because that's a laptop. Although if the price of 200GB+ drives falls below £200 then I'll be tempted to upgrade to an SSD. Given the laptop only cost me £300, I'd think twice about paying £200+ for the boot drive at the moment.

However, I do have one in my main/only Windows PC - 80GB OCZ Vertex2 as a boot disk. Excellent purchase, and again as soon as the price of 200GB+ drives fall then I'll be tempted to replace my current "Programs" drive with an SSD. That'll leave me with only my "Data" and "Backup" drives on HDD, which seems a reasonable arrangement to me.

[HoldenBurn1000]

Put my one my new build last week. Blown away by it. Getting another soon now I know how fast it is!

[[GSV]Trig]

60gb Vertex 2 as boot
90gb Vertex 2 as data
60Gb Agility 3 as temp/swap

Once I get a new board with SATA600 on it then the Agility will be boot drive.

[Iron Sights]

*puts hand into pockets.....comes out empty*

[ataru]

Yes, if you can, you should

[Nelviticus]

I use an Intel 120GB 320 as my boot drive, which has allowed me to install antivirus software for the first time without it bringing my PC to its knees.

I went for Intel over the others as I thought reliability was worth paying a bit more for, especially as I was moving from a pair of mechanical drives in RAID1.

[Djini]

Got a 60gb acting as a cache for my 500gb sata3 drive.

Intel rapid thingiebob ftw!

[brasco]

Yep, 2x Corsair 120GB GTs in RAID0 and a Revodrive 3 240Gb, both brilliantly fast both so far stable. First experience with a revodrive was terrible, had a Revo x2 240Gb just kept crashing and finally gave up when one of the 55Gb arrays died. Since that the replacement has been rock solid. I just want them to start competing with larger storage as that's where my major bottle neck is atm.

brasc

[cptwhite_uk]

I bought an Intel X18-M 80Gb 1st Gen for a "bargain" price of £130. While it doesn't support TRIM I wouldn't be without it, massive difference to system responsiveness and load times. I suspect I'll opt for a 256GB model for my next build.