HDD vs SSD

[Jeremy Proome]

HDDs still king of the SA storage realm

HDDs remain the preferred storage devices for South African consumers, although SSD demand is seeing gradual growth

 

[dabbler]

SSD prices have to drop to no more than 10-15% above that of HDD's before I take the plunge.

 

[kolaval]

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

 

[saffakanera]

Thank God for family in Canada.

 

[NomNom]

I wouldn't mind one of these

http://www.rebeltech.co.za/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=14&products_id=6618

 

[reactor_sa]

HDD for storage, SSD for system and apps. Need both.

 

[Pada]

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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[Fudzy]

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?

 

[LazyLion]

"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!

 

[bwana]

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.

 

[Chevron]

You guys are missing the point. An SSD is for performance. Not storage. You want storage, get a mechanical drive.

 

[Mr.CookieMonster]

If SSD and HDD were around the same pricing, SSD would be owning

 

[reactor_sa]

You guys are missing the point. An SSD is for performance. Not storage. You want storage, get a mechanical drive.

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

 

[DotKomrade]

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.

 

[Dan C]

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.

 

[Fudzy]

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

I think the 256gb would be sufficient for just about any application. Waiting for it's price to come down is painful though.

 

[Nerfherder]

SSD prices have to drop to no more than 10-15% above that of HDD's before I take the plunge.

Why would they ever be 10% cheaper than a HDD ?

 

[Fudzy]

Why would they ever be 10% cheaper than a HDD ?

Good question, what are the material prices of an HDD vs SDD? A shipping container of SDDs must be a lot cheaper than HDDs.

 

[robdutchmonkey]

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

 

[LazyLion]

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.