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

    Yep, I've been using one for the last 18 months and would never go back.

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

    yep got a corsair performance pro .. 128 yeah it's fast at loading and shutting down .. but really don't see much diffrence in games .. would i do it again ..hmmm
    but thing is you always need 1-2 tb of slow mo drives and if your looking on them no point of a ssd..
    we need the price to half and half again and size to go up ..
    gimmi a 500gb ssd for £150 i'll buy 4

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

    No. Not convinced by the cost per capacity compared to conventional HDs.

    When (and if) they drop in price/GB sufficiently, then I'll probably get one. And not before.

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

    Yup, will never go back either.
    Only a 120gig, but it's not really a problem, I have games like BF3, FIFA12, GTA perm-installed but the rest I just uninstall after I've completed them. Don't use any big apps really so space isn't an issue.

    As for the dude who says it only shaves half a second off his program loading times, you either formatted a lot or had a seriously well organised HDD. That's one thing I've noticed with the SSD, I've had it in for 14 months and only reformatted once, and that was because the system went FUBAR. When I was using a mechanical boot drive it would get so sluggish I felt the need for a clean format every 3 months or so.#

    And as for game loading times I'm usually loaded up and playing while people are still waiting, in BF3 alone it shaves a good 10 seconds off. Sure you have to wait when map changes happen but for when you're joining an active game its so much better.

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

    Bought an Intel 80GB X25M 34nm soon as it received firmware TRIM support. Like others I could never go back. Got a Crucial 256GB C300 in that sale months back. Still haven't gotten round to migrating the OS to it I would normally do a clean install on to a new SSD/HDD but can't be bothered to reinstall/configure all the old programs. I guess I will copy an image of my OS drive over but haven't done that before so am procrastinating...

    Oh yeah, given that virtually every SSD manufacturer has had some problem or other with their drive reliability recently (even Intel and Samsung), I wouldn't want to be in the market for one right now. Having said, as this technology matures and the bugs hopefully get ironed out, they're just going to get more and more compelling. Safety first though chaps...

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Noli View Post
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    Oh yeah, given that virtually every SSD manufacturer has had some problem or other with their drive reliability recently (even Intel and Samsung), I wouldn't want to be in the market for one right now. ....
    Funnily enough, that was part of my reasoning for not doing it for quite a while. But I don't feel particularly worried about it now. Maybe that because I'm still not doing it for other reasons, though.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    No. Not convinced by the cost per capacity compared to conventional HDs.

    When (and if) they drop in price/GB sufficiently, then I'll probably get one. And not before.
    Well they're around about £1/GB now, which is pretty good. I wouldn't use 'em for mass storage though, obviously it's far more ideal to have a big slow spinner for data/backups.

    And to answer the question, yes, my desktop has a 240GB SSD for operating systems and software.
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    Re: Features - QOTW: Do you use an SSD in your main PC?

    Not yet due to cost of them and space...

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

    Had my c300 for a fair while now and still love it, hate using other computers now as it's so slow.

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

    My first SSD was the most noticeable improvement in my PC possibly ever. It was one of the early samsung 60gb which I got in early 2009 so that maybe makes me an early adopter. £100+ for 60gb might not seem worthwhile but it very much is. Anyway I tend to look at it as essential for a fast PC. Or any PC. I just wish there was another upgrade that gave such a noticeable boost for so little cash. Upgrading to a faster 256gb crucial C300 was nice for the extra space but not that noticeable in terms of using the PC only really in benchmarks.

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

    I've just got a 40gig one for my boot drive, with small programs like firefox and then F3's in mirror for bulk storage.

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

    I will never go back to mechanical drives and an SSD is well worth it for everything i.e game load times and startup but you do stop noticing the speed difference quite fast until you use a laptop with a mechanical hard drive. Also as soon as windows starts you can click on chrome and everything opens up so fast it's brilliant

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    No. Not convinced by the cost per capacity compared to conventional HDs.

    When (and if) they drop in price/GB sufficiently, then I'll probably get one. And not before.
    For some reason I think you're thinking of an SSD as a HDD replacement rather than a system enhancer... is that right? Probably not but it's worth noting that having a 30-60Gb SSD drive just for Windows(Linux depending on your preference) makes a huge difference to the responsiveness of your machine, far better than getting a massively expensive new rig.

    Something that is more affordable but probably not as good is the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drives. I'm considering a 320Gb/500Gb Seagate Momentus XT for my game library that is growing and possibly to put into the family PC. I'm hoping something better comes out before I get round to that though.

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

    Nope don't use one, why not? because the capacity is too small for my liking and they are too expensive at the capacities I'd actually want. Also, I never turn my computer off, I only put it to sleep so windows boot times mean nothing to me and everything else I can wait that extra few seconds. I'd have one, if 512GB drives cost £100.

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    Uhm, yeah, you normally use an SSD with a HDD as well. Everyone knows that right?
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    Re: Features - QOTW: Do you use an SSD in your main PC?

    Quote Originally Posted by mikeyboy View Post
    Nope don't use one, why not? because the capacity is too small for my liking and they are too expensive at the capacities I'd actually want. Also, I never turn my computer off, I only put it to sleep so windows boot times mean nothing to me and everything else I can wait that extra few seconds. I'd have one, if 512GB drives cost £100.
    What do you need 512Gb for?

    You would be wasting your money if you were storing videos, music, pictures and documents on a SSD.

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