This is probably what I will buy as the read and write speeds are almost symmetrical, Plus it comes with the 5.25 to 3.5 bracket too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Infinite
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This is probably what I will buy as the read and write speeds are almost symmetrical, Plus it comes with the 5.25 to 3.5 bracket too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Infinite
voted no simply because of cost, sure I would like one but not at those asking prices. Tbh I'm quite happy with my standard hdd
Since I'm always looking out for deals on fleabay I've definitely got to say mine was worth it. Firstly I bought an Intel X25-V 40GB for ~£90 from CCL and loved it. I then spotted an Intel X25-M 80GB a few months later on fleabay for £106 and it was in a very good condition and the drive works as new so I can't complain.
I know my system is far too good for what I use it for, I've definitely got to say at the moment it's the SSD that makes my system so fast and for that reason alone it's worth it for me.
Gotta love those SSDs, best upgrade to general system performance ive seen in years, makes the PC run the way you imagine it should do.
You can see what I have from my spec on the left and my sig.
Prices (all bought between 9months and a year ago):
128Gb Falcon about £250
64Gb Sammy £140
X32s £100
Like I've said before I honestly don't notice my PC suffering from I/O wait very often, I keep an uncluttered disk (all my mass storage is on another machine), I let it run a regular defrag in the middle of the night. My OS partition is set to 120GB at the start of my drives to keep it in the quickest part.
With regular old drives I can boot inside a minute (I hardly ever reboot anyway, sleep mode's near-instant on is great), games load quick enough for me, Office 2010 and Chrome open instantly already...
I'd have to spend a fat wad of money on a 100GB+ drive (I'm also data paranoid, I have a lot of hard to replace work stuff so always RAID1) and to be honest I don't think I'd notice much difference. Maybe in a laptop I'd consider a small 40-60GB drive, as the little 5400rpm drives that come with most laptops are a bit slow and I wouldn't need as much space for games etc.
cheers guys some interesting replies, personally i cant justify the price / GB yet possibly later (next windows re install)
I got a 128GB Kingston drive for £150 at the start of the year. Not the fastest, but figured when drives get a lot faster and cheaper I'll replace it and stick this one in a laptop (hence why I went for capacity over speed, wouldn't like to have a machine with 40-64GB of storage space total). Very pleased with it, makes a huge difference to general performance! It's also kinda awesome being first to load the map on most multiplayer games, means I get dibs on the MG in DoD:S :p
I voted Yes, worth every penny. For what I use my PC for it's the best upgrade I could make, I only really play TF2 and DoD:S these days and even then it's only a couple of times a week.
Ebuyer have the OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB for £129.99 today .... Can I resist buying one ?
Not yet, still waiting for prices to go down like a lot of people i imagine.
I just bought the 80gig Intel Gen2.
I would say it's only just about worth it to me. Windows boots faster, but I rarely reboot anyway... Games load a little bit faster, but it doesn't make much difference. The problem is that what used to take 40 seconds now takes about 25 or something. So it's an improvement but I still have to wait, so it's not much of a benefit to me.
What makes it worthwhile for me is that general windows usage is very snappy and that's important to me, and also it's completely silent. I have my OS and a few key apps and games on it, so most of the time I hear absolutely no hard drive noise. It's only when I play a game I have installed on one of my other disks that I'm reminded what a noisy mechanical disk used to sound like.
So it's worth it, but only just. I wish it was faster. Rather than 40 seconds down to 20 something, it needs to be down to 2 seconds.
I never buy "new" technology I wait until it slips into the "tried and trusted" category and the prices have halved.
An SSD is on the cards but not yet.
I just got a Macbook Air with a SSD (off eBay) and i have to say i am very impressed with it. I wasn't sure how much faster it was going to be than a 3.5" drive! But the results were shocking. My air boots up in less than half the time of my iMac which has double the ram and a much faster cpu! If you have the spare money get one, they are great! However, they are expensive for what they are
I have 2 SSDs:
1) A 32GB Samsung SLC SDD* which is a great boot drive for my main PC. Bought it from Novatech on offer for £80.49 in February 2009... Very happy with it performance and price wise given that it's SLC and was bought fairly early on.
2) A 64GB Samsung MLC SSD in my HTPC which was bought for its lack of moving parts / noise rather than performance but did, as a brief test, make my work laptop feel a hell of a lot faster (the standard work install includes a lot of crap that can quite easily bring even a fast laptop to its knees). Bought November 2009 from Scan for £126.49... Which felt like too much cash at the time and still does (though I've spent a fair bit on HTPC parts since then - moving to a smaller form factor to fit in with a smaller TV / media stand - so I'm not quite sure why it still feels like too much cash when I've spent more than that on a case + Pico PSU + AC --> DC brick)... To be honest I could probably achieve the same noise level with one of the slower / quiter 2.5" or even 3.5" drives so I judge this as more of a rash buy (in fact, now I think about it, it should probably go back in the laptop!).
*Yes I know it says 30GB in the "malfunction's system" bit - but it is 30 real GB (gibibytes if you must) rather than 32 marketing-GB (SI gigabytes)...
I think there to expensive at the moment. But i was tempted to buy one ... hmm
What's the implication of buying a second hand SSD?
Are they significantly slower in the real world, or only on benchmarking suites?
Depends I guess. If you format a SSD I imagine the raw performance is near to that of a new drive, with speed differences being within the range of anomaly.Quote:
Originally Posted by nibbler