Why you should buy an SSD (MyGaming)

[Rickster]

To be honest I think the ratio of Storage to Price is just not worth it, and if you have big games such as Max Payne 3 which is 23GB~ and BF3 16GB~ the SSD will get full very quickly.

But I would like to add that since the upgrade from 4GB DDR2 MHz to 16GB DDR3 MHz the load times in MP/SP games (COD,BF3 ect) has decreased dramatically so there is no need for a SSD setup.

[Timber_MG]

Horses for courses. The responsiveness in productivity applications, IOP intensive apps and fast start-up times make it worth while for me.

16GB RAM is nice to have.

Mechanical hard drives are still good i.t.o performance/rand for sequential read and large capacity storage. Running a proper Defrag (MyDefrag Optimize Monthly) on your drive and keeping data where performance matters on earlier sectors of a drive speeds up such operations.

Random access and short queue depths is where mechanical hard drives suck, often being around 50-100 IOPS where even faily priced SSDs outperform that by a factor of 1000 these days.