QOTD: Have You Bought An SSD Yet?

[kalan_09]

2 32GB X25-Es in Raid 0. I had heard they were fast, but seeing them in action is pretty sweet stuff

 

[cliffro]

No, like many posters I too will wait for prices to actually reach reasonable levels before even considering one.

Then there is this issue: "2) They address the short write life. IE once they can remove the wear leveling crap."

That's more important than price.

 

[Mr_Man]

The OCZ Vertex series makes it REALLY appealing, but the problem is that I would still need a conventional hard drive because of the video/audio editing I do. I've settled for getting a great computer with a good HDD (WD Caviar Black 640GB) and get an SSD sometime in the future for my OS and programs, then use the HDD for media only.

 

[megamanx00]

No need. I'm happy with my WD 1TB Black edition. Even though I'm not using most of it, yet, SDDs don't have enough capacity for me. If I want more disk performance I can add another 2 for RAID 5. Not only that, but I don't like the short write life of SDDs.

 

[maigo]

nope, price

 

[talys]

Yes. Intel X25-M 160GB, and I've installed firmware 1.1. Bought it instead of the X25-E because of hard drive size. Most noticable upgrade ever; reminds me of P4/4GB -> Core/8GB upgrade.

 

[tleavit]

I have the Samsung SSD's in my main computer 2 x 64 in raid. I have a 64 gig Samsung in my Play Station 3 and I have a 32 gig version in my Dell Latitude laptop. I've had about 5 sets or rapter drives in my PC's over the years and I love the SSD's. My entire room is no longer dominated by hard drive chatter.

 

[tleavit]

By the way, with only a 6600 quad core, Vista X64 loads in about 3 seconds with 2 Samsung SSD's in raid. The Vista load bar basically flashes up and maybe scrolls one and I'm in Vista after Bios post. That was a good 5 seconds faster the rapters in raid.

 

[fuzzymath10]

The difference is unbelievable. I just bought an X25-M (80GB) for my Dell D630 and it doesn't even begin to compare with the 160GB 7200.3 I had before, which is one of the faster drives you can get for a laptop.

The lack of noise and heat + reduced power usage are all icing on the cake.

I will probably get a small one for my htpc soon, but my desktop drives don't feel nearly as slow as my 7200.3 did. Plus, 2TB of flash storage isn't going to be cheap.

 

[Guest]

i Have a Dell Percision M6400 with raid 0 between a dell samsung 128FB RBX and a corsair 128GB SSD i would have to say they are fast. IT is the FASTEST boot i have seen (actualy second fastest i saw a dell Percision T7400 with 8 64GB samsung SSDs in a raid 0 that booted to vista in 1 minute 45seconds bios/15 seconds to the os with antivirus and cs4 ect.) It boots to windows in 45-50 seconds 20 seconds bios rest is windows.

 

[supernatural006]

I went with the OCZ Vertex (60gb), but I still have a seagate and a Western digital HD (both 500gb) as well.

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

[citation][nom]cliffro[/nom]No, like many posters I too will wait for prices to actually reach reasonable levels before even considering one. Then there is this issue: "2) They address the short write life. IE once they can remove the wear leveling crap."That's more important than price.[/citation]
^This, basically^

 

[rags_20]

I'm confused. I mean, some of the SSDs like those from OCZ have higher capacity and lower prices than the Intel ones. Do these ones have higher access times?

 

[radguy]

Yep I picked up a 32gb patriot warp and put it in my msi wind. I turned on some of the tweaks and performance is spectacular except I do see stuttering but its pretty rare. And a 27 second boot up time (after I got everything installed) more than makes up for it. I didn't need the space I mean its a netbook and I just use it for the basics.

I'm planning on picking up 2 60gb vertex's (or whatever is reasonable)for my desktop and putting them in raid 0 when Windows 7 comes out. I really need the price to come down about 40-50% though. We'll see what happens but that would be amazing performance. I wouldn't buy another ssd with a jmicron controller with the vertex and supertalents indilink controller ssds out now.

 

[MoUsE-WiZ]

I've been considering it. I actually had an order placed for 4x 30GB Vertex in January, but I got bored of the consistent "next week..." from OCZ and spent my money elsewhere.

I'll probably try to get my hands on either a Z-Drive or the next gen Intel drives when they exist.

 

[cablechewer]

I would like to get one for my games drive to eliminate some HDD lag problems I encounter, but can't justify the cost yet (it would be cheaper to build a stripe set to handle the issue).

I definitely will not use one as a boot drive until I hear fragmentation issues are resolved and they improve the number of write cycles. Windows simply does too many small writes and I have seen several articles on how these drives slow over time as they fragment. Perhaps new controllers will address that...

I am not terribly worried about capacity. If I actually took the time to clean up my HDD I would only have 100-120GB of data and software. Items that don't require speed can stay on a standard HDD for the foreseeable future.

 

[MagicPants]

I'll get one when it's a buck per 2 gigs and fast. Hard drives are getting bigger than I need them to be and I suppose I could throw in a cheap one for mass storage.

It'd be nice if windows 7 would make SSD ownership easier by making it default to store apps on the boot drive and their non-time-critical data (movies, music, etc...) on a secondary drive.

 

[midnightgun]

Not yet, but planning to get 2 for raid 0 when I build my new system for Windows 7. Thus far it will be either Patriot or Intel.

 

[cadder]

I spec'd a velociraptor for the system drive in my new CAD workstation. When I replace it in a few years it would probably be appropriate to use a SSD for the OS.

I have considered an ultraportable laptop and some of those make use of SSD's.

 

[rigaudio]

I have some 64 GB OCZ SSD in my desktop, yeah.

 

[marokero]

Regardless of price (well, the more affordable the better), large capacity, reliability and long life are MUCH more important for me, and the photos I take, both professionally and personally. So no, I do not have an SSD yet.

 

[Guest]

Waiting for the price of the 160 GB SSDs to fall - it'll have to be either the OCZ Vertex, the new Samsung PB22 based drives or if Intel drops the price of its X-25M.

I think there'll be faster adoption of these drives if you can get 160 gigs for ~USD 350. Still considerably more then the 7200 rpm drives, but in a notebook, the low power and heat, silent use and lesser weight will be a fantastic upgrade.

 

[WayNorth]

Yes, I have 6 x Patriot Warp v2 32GB, setup in RAID5. Each drive was about 112.00 Canadian on sale, normal price was 154.00.

Spec's and model is:
Patriot PE32GS25SSDR Warp 32GB 2.5IN SATA2 Solid State Disk
Sequential Access - Read up to 175MB/s
Sequential Access - Write up to 100MB/s

No noise at all from these, very very fast read and write speeds.

Cost of course is the biggest issue still with any SSD's on the market.

 

[caliman64]

Not yet. They're too pricey and don't have enough storage space. I'll wait til the price comes down and the storage goes up.

 

[TidalWaveOne]

Yes! Never going back to HD for my main computer.