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kitamesume:
you dont get what i say do you? i said i dont mind waiting 20seconds of boot time, once the system boots, ssds are worthless, why? i dont move files too much nor do i have to, i leave my pc working 24/7 so i dont even need to reboot. tho i only reboot when system needs to, via update or hardware install.
speed isnt all there is, price per capacity is still the main problem of storage devices, games are getting bigger, videos are getting bigger as well. having 1Tb of storage isnt enough anymore, if people did have the issue of speed, they would've instantly switched to SSDs and still continue to have capacity issues. so what are making people still cling to HDDs? its because SSDs are way too overpriced to be worth more than a boot drive, and its still not that much worth it as a boot drive either, its still gonna take you time to boot, and 50$ more to pay just to shave off 10sec of wait? meh... got to admit rich people are just off the charts when its about "new" or "better" products.
Lonewolf5460:
It is not just the boot time but ok think that way.
As I said in MY experience the times a program freezes it is directly attributed to the hard drive not being able to keep up period I have not had a program freeze up in a long time. Do a virus scan and do something else your programs slow down because your hard drive is trying to do two things at once and the program is stuck waiting for the hard drive, not a problem with a ssd with its access times. That is the main performance benefit not boot times.
Having Firefox start in a second or having iTunes start instantly is a bonus the stability for your programs is a benefit to. BTW iTunes is on the ssd the actual music is on a regular hard drive.
Burkingam:
I bought one like a month ago and I still haven't install it. I'm to busy right now. I will wait for the end of my semester.
kitamesume:
so you're saying viruses only clings to OS drives? no they dont, usually the first thing you`d want to scan is your slave drive, because an infected slave drive is a bye-bye files drive. making you lag while you scan and access your slave drive. i dont use my anti-virus any more than a virus-monitoring defense(so i`d know if i`m infected already or not) as its because its useless, it cant entirely block viruses from infecting your drive, nor can it perfectly remove it.
i dont get any freezes on my 5400rpm drive(yea ancient harddrive as an external(hell yea more lag right? but no)) nor do i get freezes on my other rig with a 7200rpm bootdrive, it boots 15-20sec from 0 to surf.
i used my SSD on my HTPC as it needed it more than any rig i owned, i needed it to boot faster and nothing else.
copying chunks of files from one HDD to another is a pain indeed, but why would i buy 1000$ SSD for storage?
Edit2: my firefox starts the second i click it(with currently 17opened tabs and saved after close), yea instantly, why? i use my ram as a buffer.
isukianime:
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
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