[citation][nom]AMD_pitbull[/nom]$/gb, very important? Yes. Performance/$. Once again, also important. How about lifespan/$? As in, cost/year with regards to total cost? For instance, using the "Walmart special" as an example (which was done well, imo). Most people don't need a high end gaming system to accommodate their computer needs. They wanna facebook, twitter, youtube, etc. Students usually need offices as well. Majority of the people are able to get by with a CPU that's been out for 5 years. CPU cost, say, 200? lasts, we'll say 8 years. 200/8 makes for 25/year? that's a good deal. I have personally used HDD's for a number of years. My last desktop I had a 5 year old HDD in it. Horrible boot times too. I mean, I had to wait almost 25 seconds to use my computer when I shut it down? Tsk tsk, I know. $65. Works out to a pretty easy to justify $13/year. Now, with the amazing (yes, sarcasm intended) life-spans of these new drives, and the way, kids especially, download music, movies, stupid games, random programs, etc., how long is that drive gonna last? Ideally, you use the SSD for Windows and maybe another program or two, most used and highest demand on the speed of the drive. Keep in mind, we live in the real world, not an ideal one. Kids think they know better. So, that being said, how many of these kids in todays world are gonna use that SSD to save the music, movies, and games that dad's gonna have to fix later, and valuable life that just got drained out of his (best case scenario?) $80 new toy that he'll have to replace in a month or two cuz junior watches too much porn? Extend the life to something that can be justified, and the average person will have more use for it. As for the people that want to spend the money on it, more power to you. But as for those that wanna see themselves as pioneers for this future, who's to say the PCI drives don't come down in prices faster, making them the more viable option? Who's to say by the time SSD's even come CLOSE to the price of HDDs, that something far better isn't already gonna be implemented? This is technology, people. There's no predicting, or foreseeing where things are gonna be in a few years. For the people that want the speed: cool. For the people like me who are just enjoying the way technology is advancing and wanna see people stop bitching about "you need this" or "your system is complete crap if you don't have this", we'll wait for a reasonable solution to our absolutely DREADFUL system hangs, like maybe a better option than BIOS? Long story short, there's always gonna be something new, or something that people see as a "must have." Never, and repeat NEVER, listen to those that try to say that it's something you can't live without. Odds are, in the end, the only thing you should've done is kept your money in your wallet and away from other people's "needs." A fool and his money are soon parted, but, with the internet, schemers are finding these fools far quicker.Now, I'm gonna head to bed and see if that back guys cries more about those oh-so-personal attacks against him. And, yes, I actually bought popcorn after I read those posts earlier. THAT'S one thing you can't live without.[/citation]
you say it like a normal person who is new to tech.
lets address cost of item to time used.
an ssd, a good one, is insured for 5 years. you get at least that much time with it where you would get a more or less free replacement if it fails, and ssds already fail less than hdds, and they also dont have mechanical parts that can ware out randomly.
a good one, even sata2 saturates/comes close to saturation the read speed, maybe not the write.
the main difference between hdd and ssd is the io operations, and seek time, seek probably wont get to much better over the next 5-10 years, io will probably jump to about 2-500000 for consumer grade in the same time.
my point being, a good ssd right now would last most people years, and read speed wise, hdds most likely wont touch it but may be close. and the seek time adds to how smooth your pc experience is.
another point is ssds dont die from reads, they die from writes. unless that kid is downloading over 7tb a day of porn on a 80gb drive, he isnt going to ware it out in a month.
and i have to also say, that if you use something, lets say dialup, and than you get a cable modem, and you are forced to go back to dialup, you have the right to call it crap unless its a cable modem. a friend did this, so it was the example, and i have to believe that going from a hdd to a ssd is similar in end results, where you cant go back to a hdd boot.
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