[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]$2.15 - $2.50 per gigabyte? No thanks. I think most people are over the "OMGZ IT'S SO FASHT!!111" mentality and have finally come back down to earth where people work for a living...How can you justify this added cost? Screw paying $500+ for a drive that doesn't even have the storage of a $40 drive. Buy another video card and you'll notice far more performance than you would from the SSD. I get that it's fast, and that's great, but they just need to focus on getting the technology into people's hands and fix the problems inherent to this type of memory.[/citation]
actually, you get a hell of a preference increase with an ssd. only reason i dont have one is because i need at least 180gb of space and will not pay over 50cents a gb for it.
get me a 50 read write but instant seek time and i will pay for it, it needs not to be fast.
[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]Its ok youll grow up one day with us adults who can afford these or even 2 like me. Suck it up got to pay to play bud![/citation]
i despise people who think this way. if you have even 100$ at the end of a month working a full time job, consider yourself F***ING LUCKY
[citation][nom]echdskech[/nom]I wonder if these guys saying the price is not worth it has ever even experienced using any of these drives.[/citation]
i have, granted not even close to this gen, but i have used an ssd before. they SO kicks the s*** out of a traditional hdd, but they have serious issues that are just being fixed, like how many writes they have, and how much they cost.
the sad thing is that they have failure rates that are way higher than they should be considering no mechanical parts.
they also cost way to much per gb, and for home use, you can wait that 20 seconds for a program to open, or a few seconds for that folder to load, considering you can get a 2tb drive for cheaper than you can get 80gb of many ssds
[citation][nom]someguynamedmatt[/nom]I guess everything I say related to SSD storage tends to be a bit extreme, but that's beside the point. Yes, maybe you CAN afford it, but does that mean it's a good purchase? I can afford to buy seven hard drives full of pornography, but that doesn't mean I do. I invest my money in more useful things that show me a much, much better return for my money. Like I said about a sound setup - what would you rather have? Three seconds off of load time, or a pair of studio monitor headphones with an ultra-high end sound card?[/citation]
you dont get ultra high end for less than 1000$ when it comes to headphones, and 200$ when it comes to sound card, and another 600 for the amp to drive the headphones properly.
[citation][nom]Kamab[/nom]You are paying to remove a major bottleneck on most computers. That said, the 2 SSDs I have bought have been 64GB and 80GB, and neither had exceptionally fast write times (No point for my applications). SSD's for consumers in general are not meant for storage, they are meant as boot/application drives.You can buy the fastest Video card you want but It's not going to make the access times of a hard disk any faster, a property which is bottle-necked by the mechanical design of HDDs.[/citation]
for me i need them for storage applications, due to the seek time that is involved with the hdd. it can take minutes to open folders and close to a day to sort them, but with an ssd it may only take an hour even on a sub 50mb read speed, just because of no seek time
[citation][nom]dalethepcman[/nom]I would rather have instant loading applications, zero time disk searches, and 10 second load times over the life of my pc. This will save me hundreds of hours a year, and time is money, once you grow up you might realize this. Where as good headphones just make music sound better, unless your claiming to be some kind of producer.[/citation]
hundreds of hours a year, lets say an application take 10 seconds to load, and you dont exit it till you are done. congrats, you saved 1 hour over the coarse of a year, and if you honestly are waiting on those programs to load and not doing SOMETHING in the mean time, you are multitasking wrong and costing youself money.
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