Anyone Get A Solid State Drive? Worth It?

mr_fishbulb

I've currently got a 160GB WD Raptor as my OS and App dirve (also have a 320GB USB for documents and 500GB USB for backups).

Got Windows 7 ordered for October and I was considering a SSD drive. I can get a 64GB on for just over £100.

Should I follow my temptation, or is it not worth it?

Edit Should probably say I've got a 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo (6300) & 4GB RAM

Use the machine for:
photo editing
video converting (to xvid to play on the tele)
office
internet
No games

RobTang

as long as you dont equate cost into your worth calculation its worth it.

The cheap ones arn't great, the rest are too expensive to consider sticking in a desktop. laptops makes more sense to due less power and quicker boot times.

JasX

I was kinda hoping they'd get a little cheaper if given a little more time so am holding off trying them for now

http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/systems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218501623

Intel Slashes Price Of SSDs
July 21, 2009 03:15 PM

The price drop is the result of Intel moving the product line to a 34-nanometer manufacturing process for NAND flash memory used in solid-state drives.

Intel on Tuesday introduced its next-generation solid-state drives at a price that's 42% less than the previous models.

RobTang

Your going to have to wait a long long long long long time before they are a reasonable price.

The slashed price is £136 per drive IF you bulk by a 1000, now given tax, retailer markup, uk markup, retailers are pushing it for £241~ for 80gb.

good drives, just dont look at the price tag.

banger9365

i got a samsung PB22-J 64GB ssd and it makes my raptor look like a stunned slug,
you have to turn some thing off in windows has there not needed on a ssd and remove some stuff to free up space on it ,it only 64GB after all

http://forums.cclonline.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=356&d=1250165160


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my set up in the ssd is
page file turned off on the ssd, put running on the raptor
Superfetch
prefetcher
search indexing
Vista/win 7 indexing all turned off on the ssd put working on the raptor
Hibernation is turned to save space ,yes it uses alot has well .
a the moment with all my programs installed
win 7
office 2003
hd tune
3dmark vantage
quickepar
gimp
newgroups
CyberLink Hi-Def Suite
VLC media player
tv card stuff
firefox
kis
msn
xp mode
COD WAW
ect
ect
i have over 40GB left on the ssd
they are worth it ,YES only if you have a topend pc,cost too much , stay with a normal hdd until the prices come down unless you can afford them

mr_fishbulb

Thanks banger. From what I've read, if you install Win 7 on a SSD it will automatically optimise itself.

wizk1

Judging by the list of things you use your machine for. I wouldn't bother. The main bottleneck in your machine for video encoding and photo editing will without doubt be your processor and not your hard drive. Buying SSD for this is just a waste of money IMHO.