Got SSD?

Just reading Cov's post on Win7 & SSD's here and it made me wonder just how popular SSD's are becoming as a realistic option for a main drive.

Personally, I feel the ones with sufficient capacity to be viable as a main drive are still prohibitively expensive at the moment. However, the way the tech market moves these days, in 12-18 months they will be so much more affordable and available, and will be appearing in OEM machines.

I've got one SSD (G.Skill Falcon 128 running Windows 7 64 bit RC presently) in my SFF and it's nice but I'm not convinced it was worth the money. Size/heat concerns for the case were big factors in choosing it, as well as performance of course.

My main rig runs on Raptors and it's definitely not as nippy but I only tend to notice the SSD most when I'm installing stuff. I'd probably buy another if I were feeling particularly flush but I'm waiting until the larger capacities come down in price.

SSDs are too expensive for there size, I indeed to wait a couple of years, for the price point to drop. They are the future I just don't want to pay for it. Plus I have some 15k hard drives which I use in my systems.

I want one - and is likely to be my next h/w purchase (either the new x25-M or OCZ Vertex, depending on price). Just trying to juggle the finances at the moment - got a wedding to save up for!

Got milk? Yeh, OCZ 60GB Vertex running Win7 RC in my laptop atm. I find the difference quite noticeable especially when installing stuff and super fast boot up. And tbh my laptop does seem a lot nipper than my desktop atm. ~_~

Still trying to weigh up whether or not to get the new Intel SSD 80GB one for my desktop and to keep the Vertex in my laptop or to just move the Vertex into my desktop....

I would love to get an SSD drive, but finances do not allow that atm :( Still when I do finally get one it will probably be a third of the price most of you paid :D

I find that the SSDs are too expensive ATM for the amount of storage they offer. I will probably wait a few years more TBH when there are decent 160gb ones for well under £100.

Edit!!

I also am not certain of the long term reliability of SSDs too ATM and certainly in a few years there will be a much better picture.

Want one - what's stopping me? Availability :(

I think they make sense as primary drives (hence the pre-order) but not for data storage so i'll be keeping my mechanical array too. Value is subjective - but i'll let you know how it works out..

Tricky question for me. It's the obvious option for an OS drive at the minute, but I've yet to be convinced that they are fast enough or reliable enough to make it worth the pretty huge £/GB premium you pay.

I will probably get one at some point in the (nearish) future, but I really don't know when, or what I'd consider a reasonable price / performance / capacity balance. So for now I'm pretty much undecided, leaning slightly towards being in favour.

Yeah, I've got one. But one of the really early ****ty V1 ones from OCZ. The one with the stutter and JMicron controller :(

Ah well, **** happens when you get stuff early and untested.

i have two Samsung own brand 64GB SLC 32MB cache drives, i did dabble with Win7RC in RAID 0, very nice to use, but I've gone back to WinXP until the official release.

The drives aren't as speedy as modern SSDs (100MB/sec seq reads, 90MB/sec seq writes) but in RAID 0 they catch up well, obviously sequential specs isn't what gives SSDs the ooomph over mechanical drives :)
(also sequential performance doesn't drop off like normal drives do and majority of reads/writes for gaming/OS use hit no where near 100MB/sec)

Just echoing some of the comments already posted - reliability is my main issue considering how much they cost.

I would like an SSD for Windows 7 though.

2 x 64GB Samsungs in RAID0 at the moment...has windows and all apps. (no games apart from WoW)

2 x 80GB Intels on pre-order that will replace them and then I will move my steam folder to the old RAID0

I have 2 8GB Transcend SLC in RAID 0 for benchmarking. I know they aren't the best but they were cheap and perform well.

I sort of have one in my pfSense box, its a SATA CF Card

I would personally, at the moment, spend the money on medium to high performance ultra-high-capacity mechanical drives. I need the space.