SSD's on a desktop - worth it or not?

[optimus_grim3]

personally i never thought it would make much of a difference.....then i did the upgrade and WOW!! Imho its one of the best things to do to speed up your system, and well worth the cash

[meggiedude]

I have had SSD's for around 3 years now and would never go back to just a normal HDD. Everything is so much quicker to load with a SSD and bootup to a useable desktop is less than 15 seconds. I still have a 1tb HDD for data but my OS and Steam is on the SSD. They have come down so much in price now as well. Just last week the Crucial M500 480GB was available for just £179.99 and a Seagate 600 series 480gb was only £159.99. I paid that for a 120GB Vertex 2E 3 years ago!!

Therefore wait a little longer and they will be even cheaper??
Prices seem to be tumbling lately.
Realise you can't wait for ever mind.

[meggiedude]

If you have just bought a bundle to upgrade your system from an old and "slow" system, then I would hold off for a year or so.

The speed of cheap systems now is frankly astonishing compared to what was available 10 years ago.

Each time you upgrade wholesale, the new system appears to be brilliant for a while but then it becomes the norm. If you then insert a cheap upgrade such as an SSD, you get the feel-good-factor all over again.

Yep, and I just need that fix

I may leave it a while. While I have the new kit setup now.

Its quick that for sure but I think my throttle has now moved from being cpu and memory based to being local network based.

I am using the new kit to video encode from a network drive, and no amount of SSD speedup will fix any network latency.

[fma965]

Yeah i have a SSD in all 3 of my systems, and i never realised how much difference they would make, everything just loads so much quicker with one, programs, windows, etc. It's all just so much more fluid, HDD's are big bottlenecks for loading times on a lot of things and a SSD really helps.

[chezney]

Love mine, made the whole system a bit snappier.