SSD or not to SSD?

homebrewer · 04-20-2009, 09:08 AM

I have been seeing great results in the capability of SSDs lately. Do you think its worth the money of buying those expensive new disk drives? I only have 320 gb seagate and its still serving me well. I don't know if its great to have an SSD for the main partition.

KingVinnie · 04-20-2009, 12:07 PM

I'd love to have one but price doesn't fit yet... $600 for 250gb.
Reminds me of when I bought a CD burner when they first came out for $500, now I can get one for $15.

apocalypse · 04-23-2009, 02:17 AM

$600 is wayy too much for me. I would prefer having a slower drive but has massive capacity. Yeah, new tech is really overpriced, even new video cards are priced higher than consoles these days.

homebrewer · 04-28-2009, 04:26 AM

If is doesn't cost an arm or a leg, I'll ditch my magnetic disks right now.

Ricardo · 05-25-2009, 09:04 PM

I'm not familiar with SSDs. I assume that they're an alternative to magnetic disc drives?

Are they supposed to be more reliable?

rickydbz · 06-01-2009, 08:52 AM

even thought SSDs are more expensive than the HDD's they are better,i've read a few articles about this in a computer magazine , they say SSD's are Faster than HDD's and work better, theyr temperature is Lower and there aren't any moving components , an HDD can pe rewrote about 10.000 times usually even moore while the SSD's 20.000, but the trick is that unlike HDD's on wich if you delete something and then you add something on the HDD the new file will be wrote over the old's one place, and like this not all the parts are written and some are written much many times than others, but SDD's control this by keeping count wich part wasn't wrote as many times as the others did and it writes there until each one of them is equal, and like this they'r life if much more longer, but in the end who cares? i just need 300GB i wont pay 600$ for SDD , i will just go for an HDD with 150-200 and anyway it wont get toasted for about 10 years and when it will you already used it enough not to care, so until SDD's will become moore accesible as price HDD is the way