SSD ready for mainstream?

no, they are not ready for the mainstream. Let us know when they are cheaper than the mechanical ones. Thanks.

/me goes back to sleep.
 
I've been using the Samsung 64 GB SSD (actually 60 GB) in a IBM Thinkpad X300 for six months now. It is absolutely awesome!

No seek time, no fragmentation, very fast.

Because the drive is so fast, you can use a much slower CPU, so the laptop runs cool & quiet and the battery lasts a long time.

Those new Intel prices are excellent.

For anyone that has ever lost a hard drive, the added sense of no-mechanical failure is great.
 
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biometrics said:
I've been using the Samsung 64 GB SSD (actually 60 GB) in a IBM Thinkpad X300 for six months now. It is absolutely awesome!

No seek time, no fragmentation, very fast.

Because the drive is so fast, you can use a much slower CPU, so the laptop runs cool & quiet and the battery lasts a long time.

Those new Intel prices are excellent.

For anyone that has ever lost a hard drive, the added sense of no-mechanical failure is great.
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Let me guess... that is a company laptop?
 
I got 2x Ocz 64GB SSD's running Raid 0 (striped) - Damn quick and cut my Vista boot time down by 15 secs alone!
 
I have been using a 128gb samsung for a few months and believe me these drives are ready for mainstream, they may not be in the same price range yet but if people could just see the speed difference a ssd drive has over anormal 7200rpm drive they would buy them.

People will spend 3-5k on a cpu's and mobo's but are not willing to do so on a hdd. People have no idea what they are missing . SSD drives are pretty cheap overseas but in this country they are just crazy, for instance a decent brand SSD 128 will set you back 280 dolla, a 64 gb in this country sold by some of the biggest pc suppliers will set you back 9k ex vat.

Intel ssd's are very expensive compared but they kick anything else on the markets ass transfer wise. They also use a tiny amount of power, can be dropped from 3 stories and survive. SSD's will become the standard soon i think, the laptop market will ensure this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227361
 
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SSDs are very popular in the server market (at least for servers that don't store large data locally). I have no doubt that they will be mainstream once they have a 120/250 GB model for under a thousand Rand available locally.
 
My only concern with regard to SSD's are the limitation on write (erase) cycles. As I have read, the cells have a lifetime of 1000-100000 cycles. Some technologies even between 1 and 5 million. My concern is that I don't know how to translate this into average life in years for for example a laptop in normal use. Is this this something I should be concerned about as a normal user? I would definitely be concerned if it was used on a server. On the other hand, the drive will mechanically be more stable. I would imagine that a big amount of RAM for the system would be a big bonus, as it would limit the hard disk activity caused by a swap file. However, when using hibernation in your netbook/laptop, a big file will be written each time you turn on the device. What do you guys think?
 
biometrics said:
I've been using the Samsung 64 GB SSD (actually 60 GB) in a IBM Thinkpad X300 for six months now. It is absolutely awesome!

No seek time, no fragmentation, very fast.

Because the drive is so fast, you can use a much slower CPU, so the laptop runs cool & quiet and the battery lasts a long time.

Those new Intel prices are excellent.

For anyone that has ever lost a hard drive, the added sense of no-mechanical failure is great.
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Why would a faster drive require a lesser cpu (for desktop/notebook)? When doing intensive tasks, like rendering or encoding, the CPU is the bottleneck. With a faster drive this only becomes worse.
 
How can anything at these prices be considered "mainstream"? How is the average user supposed to be able to afford these prices?
 
When I can get a 200GB+ SSD that has full disk encryption for a reasonable price I think I'd make the switch.
 
Garyvdh said:
How can anything at these prices be considered "mainstream"? How is the average user supposed to be able to afford these prices?
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These drives are not really for your word internet users, these drives are for people who want to work on fast computers, a guy surfing the net and checking his email has no need for a SSD.

These drives are amazing for work machines, gaming machines. Gary i would like to know one thing, have you ever seen windows run on an SSD or even a raptor? The difference is amazing. So my thinking is if someone can afford to drop 3-7k on a gpu why can they not spend 2k. When people think of fast computers they think CPU and memory coupled with a great GPU, nobody ever thinks hmmmmmmm what about my hdd would it better to have a raptor or SSD drive :). You can have the fastest pc on the market but if you using a silly 7200 rpm drive your pc is still average.

Go open photoshop with a semptron and then go open it on a core 2, thats how large the difference it.

Give it 2 more years and your mechanical hdd will be a thing of the past i rate, what amazes me though is seagate and WD have not climbed onboard the SSD market yet as far as i know.
 
killadoob said:
These drives are not really for your word internet users, these drives are for people who want to work on fast computers, a guy surfing the net and checking his email has no need for a SSD.

These drives are amazing for work machines, gaming machines. Gary i would like to know one thing, have you ever seen windows run on an SSD or even a raptor? The difference is amazing. So my thinking is if someone can afford to drop 3-7k on a gpu why can they not spend 2k. When people think of fast computers they think CPU and memory coupled with a great GPU, nobody ever thinks hmmmmmmm what about my hdd would it better to have a raptor or SSD drive :). You can have the fastest pc on the market but if you using a silly 7200 rpm drive your pc is still average.

Go open photoshop with a semptron and then go open it on a core 2, thats how large the difference it.

Give it 2 more years and your mechanical hdd will be a thing of the past i rate, what amazes me though is seagate and WD have not climbed onboard the SSD market yet as far as i know.
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Don't get me wrong... I hear what you are saying.. .and sure I would love one! I am sure they make your PC smoking fast.

It's not the technology I have an issue with.. it is the title of the article... "Ready for mainstream". Am I not correct in saying that the "average PC user" is in the mainstream? And the average PC user does not use Photoshop or "drop 3-7k on a gpu"!

The average PC user has a 2 Ghz processor with 512 to 1 Gb of RAM and onboard graphics. He uses his PC for work (word processing) or to play solitaire and read an e-mail from Auntie Tess in Canada at home.

So the average PC user in the "mainstream" is not going to run out and upgrade to a 320 Gb SSD drive tomorrow for 5 grand. Heck his entire PC didn't even cost 5 grand. It might be "mainstream" for you and me and most of the people who read this board... but we are by no means average PC users. There are billions of people out there who would give you a blank stare if you said SSD at them.

so I still ask... how is this ready for mainstream?
 
killadoob said:
You can have the fastest pc on the market but if you using a silly 7200 rpm drive your pc is still average..
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Thats fact and I have a system that proves it. In Windoze7 under "All control Pane lItems>Performance Information and Tools" I get a base score of 2.9. Determined by lowest Sub score. Which is the harddrive.

CPU 7.3
Memory 5.9
Graphics 4.0
Gaming graphics 5.4
Primary harddrive 2.9

So a SSD will do me just fine. I am sure the price will drop fast (Hope/pray) A RAID system to gain speed would be even more expensive IMHO
 
I am Penguin said:
Thats fact and I have a system that proves it. In Windoze7 under "All control Pane lItems>Performance Information and Tools" I get a base score of 2.9. Determined by lowest Sub score. Which is the harddrive.

CPU 7.3
Memory 5.9
Graphics 4.0
Gaming graphics 5.4
Primary harddrive 2.9

So a SSD will do me just fine. I am sure the price will drop fast (Hope/pray) A RAID system to gain speed would be even more expensive IMHO
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Something is seriously wrong with your setup. My vista hdd score on my laptop 7200rpm drive is 5.2. It's exactly the same in win 7. Maybe check that all your chipset drivers are installed, and that sata is not running in ide compatibility mode?
 
Nuro said:
Something is seriously wrong with your setup. My vista hdd score on my laptop 7200rpm drive is 5.2. It's exactly the same in win 7. Maybe check that all your chipset drivers are installed, and that sata is not running in ide compatibility mode?
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Thanks I will check!
 
Would love to run 2 x SSD's in Raid 0 for my OS but is way to much $$$$ for me :(
 
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