Ok I now want, no *need* an SSD

If it makes you feel any better I have three, and yes, you should get one at least..

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Originally Posted by [GSV]Trig

If it makes you feel any better I have three, and yes, you should get one at least..

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Conversely, I have none and at the current price/capacity ratio, don't feel inclined to change that. Each to his own.

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Originally Posted by Saracen

Not at all, Matty.

The thing is, for years, I've written for part of my living. And it's (nearly) always been to a defined objective, and to a specific commission. In other words, for a particular type of readership, and to a specific word length. If an editor says he wants 800 words, he really, really does not want 1500. Why? Because he has space allocated for 800 words and if you send 1500, he has to work on it cutting it down to what he asked for ... and will pay for. Do it too often and you'll stop getting work from him. And sometimes, once is too often.

What that readership is defines the way you write. I wouldn't write the same way for the Telegraph as I would for PC Pro, because the readership is different, and so is what you can assume about their technical level.

I can write for experienced readers, or novices. I can write to long or short commissions. But then, I'm being paid to.

On here, I just want to relax. I want to express myself my way.

Some people like it. I regularly get thanked for detailed and comprehensive answers. Some people don't like it, and moan.

The thing is, on here, I write to suit me. If that means not worrying at all about word count, and some people don't like it, well that's their problem. They don't have to read it.

If this comes across as angry at you, be assured I'm not. It's merely an explanation. But having that comment thrown at me regularly is getting tired. If I feel like posting a long reply, I will, and if some (or all) people don't want to read it, the solution is self-evident.

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Yeah, I understand why you do, or don't write a lot in your posts, I was just pointing out that you summarised it well and in fewer words than I could've..
Or to rephrase that, you included more detail in fewer words than I would've been able to.

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Originally Posted by Saracen

Conversely, I have none and at the current price/capacity ratio, don't feel inclined to change that. Each to his own.

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Same, if I had a bit of cash to splash around on a boot disk I'd probably get one, but I'm not inclined to at the current price points.

If I was to install an OS on an SSD rather than typical hard drive what sort of boot up times can I expect? I'm in the process of building a PC and looking at what to and what not to buy.

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Originally Posted by cprowe

If I was to install an OS on an SSD rather than typical hard drive what sort of boot up times can I expect? I'm in the process of building a PC and looking at what to and what not to buy.

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Boot up times are faster, but that's not where you really see the true performance of an SSD.
SSDs are amazing in desktop performance, everything happens when you tell it to, there's no waiting for the HDD to find all the data, it just happens.

My Windows 7 can be at the desktop within 40s of pressing the on button.

after getting a SSD for my OS drive i would never go back, unless your running a very aged system a SSD should be top on your list of upgrades unless your running CPU heavy/ GPU heavy apps and need a speed boost there.

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Originally Posted by nvening

after getting a SSD for my OS drive i would never go back, unless your running a very aged system a SSD should be top on your list of upgrades unless your running CPU heavy/ GPU heavy apps and need a speed boost there.

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If, and I repeat if you are happy to pay the price, and consider it value for money. That is, if you consider the performance boost value for money. I don't.

And it's not just if GPU or CPU intensive tasks where the prime use. For instance, if all the PC is used for is light usage, like a bit of WP, web browsing and email.

Interesting read. Im seriously considering it for my new build at the end of april now! Found a Corsair 32mb one on eBuyer and had some good reviews, about £98 exVAT.

I am still waiting for price to drop. Half decent 128GB for £150 or less would get my serious attention. I am just hoping that like RAM, when price starts dropping, they will drop real fast.

Link to the one I was looking at, speeds are reasonable in comaprison to others of the same price?

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169567

For £30 less Scan were doing (and no doubt will do again sometime this week) the X-25V.

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Originally Posted by Callum1001

Interesting read. Im seriously considering it for my new build at the end of april now! Found a Corsair 32mb one on eBuyer and had some good reviews, about £98 exVAT.

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Or, as an alternative, the Intel 40GB Intel X25-V. The sequential reads/write speeds might be lower, but unless you're doing a lot of reading/writing of very large files, random read/write times will be more important. Besides, it's 40GB as opposed to 32GB, and cheaper.

EDIT - i.e. what Terbinator said .... a bit faster than I did. :embarrassed:

Ahh okay. I still have 5 weeks to keep my eye out for a deal! Thanks (again) for the advice

Ive got the corsair and its sweet - nothing to compare it to though!

Only just had a nosey round the machine briefly (exchange 2010 rollout getting in the way :) )

In device manager it they just show up as volume0 no manufacturer detail or owt, but I did see somewhere that it said 60Gb + 60Gb in RAID0. Will do more digging tomorrow