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newy:
tl;dr the whole thread.
If you started this thread to get advice on buying a SSD, then you should wait another year.
According to this article (http://www.pcworld.com/article/227593/consumer_ssds_to_break_out_in_2012_gartner_says.html#tk.rss_news) SSDs are going to cost 70 €cents/GB in 2012.
Lonewolf5460:
They are referencing the X-25m which is an outdated controller and overpriced compared to lets say this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148348
I know thats a 128 but they have not released a 160 gig to my knowledge and that blows the x-25m out of the water on read and writes. Even the newest intel 160 is cheaper
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167053
Also the reference that Kingston drive for 120 while this is a way better drive read speed wise for 120
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233108
I dont like pc world they sold out and pretty much cater to newbies and it is obvious the have sold out to best buy over the last few years.
That invalidates that article for me. It is true the prices are dropping but that always is true, even since last year the prices have dropped a great deal performance wise not really in capacity. If you always wait nothing is going to get done. Anyways yes next year 64/80 gigs will be in the sub 100 market.
But again as a boot drive 85 bucks is hard to beat screw its 2.125 price per gig. Price /performance is the metric I use and it is well worth it, yah 85 bucks can get you a 1tb hd so what it is for a different use. Storage is storage I am talking boot drives remember back in the day with 10k raptors being boot drives same thing the raptors were 239 for a 74 gig if you do the price per gig on that it was 3.229 a gig, performance costs money nothings changed. Yes next year they will be about a dollar a gig then you will be saying wait in 2013 it will 50 cents a gig. Ill enjoy the speed boost you keep on waiting. I will drop 85 now and next year I will sell that one for 50 bucks on craigslist to someone that does not know newegg exists and buy another sub 100 SSD that is 80 gigs, 35 bucks to have it now I wont wait.
NaRu:
I have a OCZ 120GB Vertex SSD. For the most part I loved it but I had one of them died on me (files started to become corrupted). For the most part the speed on the drive is amazing but you spend a lot of money to get a decent size. I spent $420 3 years ago on 1 drive. The thing is the current standard drives are pretty fast. Western Digital black drives hit over 100MB/s now and the price for one of those drives vs a SSD isn't worth the extra 10-20 seconds saved on boot time. SSD are fast. Very fast. Speeds hitting 300MB/s read is amazing but once the information is in RAM it doesn't matter anymore. As for write speeds yes SSD are fast in that area too but you can only get those speeds as long the source is output those speeds. Unless you made a system that has nothing but SSD drives in them the write speeds means shit. Until manufactures can produce a high capacity SSD drive for a decent price HDDs will always be the better choice.
NOTE: I just bought a 1TB Western Digital black drive for $90 to replace my SSD so I can have more space for my system drive.
Lonewolf5460:
I have a black and the green powers and they are fast for a regular drive, 3 years ago I was looking on those prices and I figured I would wait just a little you are a true early adopter. You cant get a warranty replacement on that drive?
I wont say it again I have said it too much already, but there was not that much hesitation that I remember when enthusiasts were buying raptors, funny thing is the new 1tb blacks are faster that the raptors from back in the day.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: isukianime on May 12, 2011, 10:23:29 PM ---i'm going to wait till they've fixed the cold boot issue that the SSD drives seem to have.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ssd+not+detected+on+boot&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&aq=1&aqi=g3g-j3g-m4&aql=&oq=ssd+not+detected
--- End quote ---
That doesn't seem to be a problem for SSDs in general. At least, for me, my SSDs have been performing fine for the most part. I have a 240GB GSkill Phoenix Pro installed in my laptop and I haven't had a single startup problem with it. OTOH, I have four 40GB AData SSDs in RAID 0 and about half the time I try to boot it, one of the disks is undetected. I'm pretty sure it's always the same disk too, and it might have more to do with the mobo than the disk itself.
Anyway, please note that the 1TB Caviar Black drives have larger cache space than older Velociraptors. The speed difference you're seeing is from the cache, as well as the higher data saturation in the 1TB drives (store more data in fewer spins). If you want to test actual disk I/O, use benchmark software like CrystalDiskMark.
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