HDD vs SSD

SSD prices have to drop to no more than 10-15% above that of HDD's before I take the plunge.
 
That's because you have not tasted the speed!!!
As soon as the 240GB's drop below R2k, I'm replacing the 120GB one in my lappy.

We have a host of laptops in the office and my core 2 duo stamps even the i5 into the ground running Office, browsers, Visual Studio, database servers etc, purely because of the SSD.And the laptop only has SATA 2
 
once the price/GB of SSD's are roughly in line with that of HDD's, people would stop buying harddrives.

Can data recovery be performed on SSD's? If not, then that would perhaps be one reason for keeping HDD's...

AT this moment it is already cheaper to by a small SSD than it is to buy a small HDD!
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I find it quite interesting that the likes of OC-Z, Corsair etc have gone into SSD manufacture. Are they going to snatch the drive market from Seagate and the traditional drive manufacturers before they have time to produce their own products?
 
"Slight price premium..." :wtf:

SSD's are ridiculously overpriced and lacking in the storage space area.
HDD's are also over priced at the moment! :(
 
I have to say I must have a very different definition of the phrase "slight price premium" because as much as I would love to replace my hdd with a sdd for the space I require it's going to cost way more that that statement would imply.
 
You guys are missing the point. An SSD is for performance. Not storage. You want storage, get a mechanical drive.
 
I shelled out R2.5k for a 128 Gb SSD when I built my hackintosh (a video editing workstation) and I'll never look back. If I select the entire Creative Suite Master Collection, the entire Final Cut Studio collection and a bunch of other apps (video converters etc) and hit open, everything is good to go in under ten seconds - we're talking like 20 hardcore applications. I have a bank of HDDs for all media and run only OS and apps from the SSD.

It is sooooo worth it.
 
It's no use, they haven't taken the plunge, they don't understand the logic.

Yup they don't. SSD is quite cheap ATM compared to other system upgrades.

And as for storage ... it's becoming less important because uncapped is cheap now. Just store your personal stuff on 1tb drive and you are good to go. Download the rest when you need it.
 
Personally I can't see how one can compare hdd's to ssd's since it's comparing apples to oranges.

Sure when you're talking OS drive vs OS drive you can speak ssd vs hdd. However, when we're talking storage, ssd's are pointless, small and overpriced
 
You guys are missing the point. An SSD is for performance. Not storage. You want storage, get a mechanical drive.

I have plenty of mechanical drives for storage, I want an SSD to become my primary drive for apps and the OS. But the ones currently on offer are too small for that purpose.
Even an 80 or 120 Gb Drive is too small for a machine that has 12 to 16 TB of other storage. And the higher capacity SSD's are simply ridiculously priced.

Sorry, but it's a fail.
 
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