ssd for £100

[howareu]

wots the best ssd for £100?

in terms of capacity and speed, the minimum id go for is 64gb and is a kingston 128gb v ssd (not v+)
much faster then the fastest moving hard disk?

and are there any sgnificant draw backs with ssd?

thanks

[nibbler]

the kingston V series is slow. I would say get a vertex 32GB for ~ £90. Many times faster.

[kalniel]

Kingston V 40gb. Not slow at all (basically a small intel drive).

[Champman99]

The only 64GB Drives you can get for under ~100 are the JMicron drives that are pretty terrible or the oldest samsung drive (if you can find it, mostly sold to manufacturers)

Both of which are pretty slow (not worth getting for acceleration, but maybe for weight/battery life reasons in a note/netbook)

Generally you want an Indilinx or Intel based drive, or the newer samsungs arent so bad if you can find a good deal.

If its for a desktop PC you can use somethign like the (Intel based) 40GB Kingston suggested above, for windows and "core" applications, then put bulky stuff on hard drives. For a laptop, I would say you need something larger.

With that in mind, a useful post for seeing what controllers various brands of drives use is:
http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...d.php?t=781651

[howareu]

40gb is like nothing, im mainly getting it so certain games dont take 5 whole minutes to load

i guess ill wait till 2010 and supposdly ocz is gona release some new ssd in january so ill wait and see.

[nibbler]

Kingston V 40gb. Not slow at all (basically a small intel drive).

I was more warning him about the 64gig versions for around £100. Not great speed at all there.

[Syllopsium]

wots the best ssd for £100?
and are there any sgnificant draw backs with ssd?

Yes, you can't get a decent one for under a hundred quid

SSDs are only just exiting early adopter status. It'll be another year before they're fairly mainstream.

PK

[howareu]

i hope by next year a decent 500gb sdd will cost around £200

[Syllopsium]

i hope by next year a decent 500gb sdd will cost around £200

Don't hold your breath - it's not going to happen. A decent 80GB SSD (Intel X25M) is currently 200 quid.

The chance of capacity increasing fivefold in a year for the same price is not within the realms of possibility.

PK

[kalniel]

The chance of capacity increasing fivefold in a year for the same price is not within the realms of possibility.

Let's just leave this here for posterity...

[Syllopsium]

Let's just leave this here for posterity...

Feel free. Doubling - possible. Tripling - conceivable, I suppose. Fivefold? You've got to be kidding me..

I suspect in a year's time capacity will increase more rapidly though, due to increased demand. My prediction is for the coming year, not for the year afterwards..

PK

[spac3d]

i hope by next year a decent 500gb sdd will cost around £200

lol

[DeludedGuy]

A pound per gb on a good drive would really hit the sweet spot for me, £200 for a 200gb SSD Surely within a year we should get somewhere close to that.

[Syllopsium]

A pound per gb on a good drive would really hit the sweet spot for me, £200 for a 200gb SSD Surely within a year we should get somewhere close to that.

Yeah.. I think that's within the realms of possibility. I suspect once SSDs get up to about 160GB they'll be a viable option for most people.

I certainly don't actually need 500GB. I need to archive a load of old programmes/video onto tape (DDS4 - got to have some way of backing up your fixed storage) and also don't really need to have 15 different RPGs concurrently installed

I'm definitely tempted, but then again, my system really isn't that slow. Not really a priority.

PK

[scaryjim]

... don't really need to have 15 different RPGs concurrently installed ...

Yeah, that's far too few

I've heard of wanting tomorrow's technology today, but 500GB SSDs @ £200? That gets the kind of headshake I usually reserve for motorists who don't understand the meaning of "cyclepath".

By this time next year, we should have decent performing SSDs down to around £1 per GB, perhaps slightly less for larger drives (assuming good yields on 34nm NAND flash). From that point we can start talking about rapidly diminishing cost / GB and maybe get to the ~ 40p / GB desired by howareu sooner rather than later. But not yet...

As for minimum capacity, I reckon that 80GB is about right for me now: I used to think 40GB would do but given that the 40GB drive I currently have Win 7 32bit on is rapidly running out of space with only a couple of games installed, I'm no longer so sure. I guess if I kept the SSD purely for the OS and small system utilities, with the games & personal storage on a second decent mechnical, I might get away with 40GB. Anyone know if you can redirect the Users folder in Win 7?

[jim]

As for minimum capacity, I reckon that 80GB is about right for me now: I used to think 40GB would do but given that the 40GB drive I currently have Win 7 32bit on is rapidly running out of space with only a couple of games installed, I'm no longer so sure. I guess if I kept the SSD purely for the OS and small system utilities, with the games & personal storage on a second decent mechnical, I might get away with 40GB. Anyone know if you can redirect the Users folder in Win 7?

No need really with the introduction of libraries, but you can move the documents folder and so on in exactly the same way that you did with Vista (and XP IIRC).

I haven't been able to keep my installs small enough really, find it too easy to approach 100GB with OS and games installed so I can't imagine having less than 160GB on a hard drive... but £370 makes me want to cry.