Solid state drives are still pricey

Prices are crazy. The speed is great but I'm thinking I would prefer the money for something more beneficial to me. Any offers (reasonable) for my 2.5" 500GB Apple (Seagate) SSD?
 
Yes, but only for enterprise and avarage users that need space above performance.
 
Did anyone else see the 20+ glaring errors in that article? Not to mention the standard workaround of having two drives.
 
An internal 256GB SSD could cost in the region of R5 000 to R6 000 to buy locally. Compare this with a 1TB HDD drive which can now be picked up for around R1 000, or even less

How can you compare the two though? That is like comparing onboard graphics with nvidia latest vga card. I never knew high end parts were cheap. I really wish that was the case but in general the higher end stuff costs more money.

I am glad to see apple have taken the leap. Come acer!!!!!!
 
I'm not willing to pay that kind of money for a speed increase. Don't get me wrong... I'm itching under the slow drives we still have to put up with today... but I will take more space over speed any day of the week.
 
Garyvdh said:
I'm not willing to pay that kind of money for a speed increase. Don't get me wrong... I'm itching under the slow drives we still have to put up with today... but I will take more space over speed any day of the week.
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Depends what you want to gary but i can assure you once you boot your pc with a ssd and then with a normal drive you will change your mind :D.

I have never put anything into my pc that has been so amazing. The performance difference is just insane. Everyday my life is faster and that helps me more than storing my movies :D
 
Still not enough bang for the buck.
 
Garyvdh said:
I'm not willing to pay that kind of money for a speed increase. Don't get me wrong... I'm itching under the slow drives we still have to put up with today... but I will take more space over speed any day of the week.
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I use my SSD for windows & apps, and store my data & media on a normal drive. Best upgrade I ever did.
 
mister said:
I'm sure the rest of the SSD owners here will agree that the BANG is worth every buck!
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Of course - if I paid more for my SSD than I did for my laptop I'd like to believe it was worth it too . . .
 
I've seen an intel gen 2 ssd in action, and they aren't as awesome as the latest drives (vertex 2 :D ). I'm definitely saving for a SSD. People trying to compare a SSD with a traditional HDD don't know what they are talking about. You don't buy a SSD for storage besides windows, programs and startup related things. You can store your movies and whatnot on a 2TB, big but slow. It's not made to be super duper fast with great access times. The raptors are designed for that, and they look like ants when compared to a ssd.
 
I bought a 128Gb SSD for my desktop and another one arriving soon in the post for my laptop.

I will move my movies, shows, crap on external. Will force me to organize my folders.

Why:
Time saved = Money Saved
Extend the life of my laptop as won't have a reason to upgrade if its performance doesn't annoy me.
 
Everyone does a fresh windows install when they install a SSD. Most of the snappiness can be attributed to the fresh system. I'm not saying it's not faster. It is faster at loading stuff and doing things that are hard drive intensive. Though doing a fresh windows install on a normal HDD makes a PC feel a whole lot snappier, at least for a few months. I just reformatted my laptop hard drive on the weekend and reinstalled windows. It has never felt faster. Browsing the drive is basically instantaneuos. So I doubt SSD would really feel (much) faster to me.
 
SaiyanZ said:
Everyone does a fresh windows install when they install a SSD. Most of the snappiness can be attributed to the fresh system. I'm not saying it's not faster. It is faster at loading stuff and doing things that are hard drive intensive. Though doing a fresh windows install on a normal HDD makes a PC feel a whole lot snappier, at least for a few months. I just reformatted my laptop hard drive on the weekend and reinstalled windows. It has never felt faster. Browsing the drive is basically instantaneuos. So I doubt SSD would really feel (much) faster to me.
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rofl! a fresh install of windows on a normal drive is NOTHING like the snappiness of an SSD.
 
There have been some nice price cuts recently on SSDs, Intel have slashed their prices and Sandforce drives are good value for money. This combined with the strong Rand have really helped. I've seen 80gb Intel X-25's for R1580 and 120gb for ~R2200 which is great.

The situation will only improve early next year with the next-gen Intel drives @25nm
 
SSD's are too expensive , for comparative performance , raid 0 with cheap smaller drives make for an ideal gaming sollution.
Im not talking about business / enterprise sullotions here ,
for myself , personally , as Im a gamer , I have my games on disk and I regularly make backups.
So yes , downside = loss of 1 drive = losing all the data.
Ive got 4 250gig sata drives in raid0 and let me tell you , its a speedy little beast.
And its a good idea seeing most gaming motherboards have onboard raid.

Perhaps next year the SSD prices will go down and we can start putting SSD drives into raid and really go nuts.

Heres some benchmarks to prove my point.

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Praeses said:
I've seen an intel gen 2 ssd in action, and they aren't as awesome as the latest drives (vertex 2 :D ). I'm definitely saving for a SSD. People trying to compare a SSD with a traditional HDD don't know what they are talking about. You don't buy a SSD for storage besides windows, programs and startup related things. You can store your movies and whatnot on a 2TB, big but slow. It's not made to be super duper fast with great access times. The raptors are designed for that, and they look like ants when compared to a ssd.
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Which gives you little option if you're a laptop user, as many are, and have to choose between space and speed. ;)
 
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