SSD as primary (and only) storage.

[Lightroom]

I can remember years ago reading in PC magazine about "theoretical" builds utilizing (what was then) massive amounts of RAM operating as your HD.

While I realize there are financial constraints upon doing so, with the ability to get up to a TB of SSD storage, is there much performance advantage to be gained by using only SSD for storage?

 

[Blaise170]

There are definite advantages. It massively improves read/write speeds, decreases boot time, and offers benefits in some programs, though I'd say there is no reason to use it as primary storage at the moment. I'm using a 60GB SSD in my desktop with three HDDs which works perfectly. I have a 256GB SSD in my laptop which has greatly improved battery life as well.

 

[unksol]

SSDs are ONLY good for improving load times, the same as the completely impractical RAM drives you are comparing them to. They are COMPLETELY worthless and a waste of money for about anything else. Especially storage. They are good for you're OS, game load times, and other applications where you need high disk I/O. For things like mass storage, video storage, and large rarely accessed sequential files you are MUCH better of with a normal harddrive