Trooper_One

January 25, 2010 at 12:31pm

SSD's are still too expensive for me, not to mention that their size are simply too small.

Nowadays, I can't even imagine having a HD smaller than 500GB.  After 100+ from Steam, it gets filled up pretty fast.

M-ManLA

January 25, 2010 at 12:03pm

I will pick up an SSD as well. Still a little too pricey for me,  but I think when we start seeing it get close to $1/GB, I will pick up a FEW! I would use it for my Main drive, and my Pro Music Synth drive to search and load samples fast. I will still use HDDs, but SSD are surely going to be big very soon.

CloudRider

January 25, 2010 at 11:30am

Where's that picture from?  That looks like an epic SSD RAID setup.

austin43

January 25, 2010 at 11:10am

I'm running an ocz vertex 30gb for my boot os and ive still got 15.4GB left.  For all my music and podcasts and what not ive got a 1tb wd caviar black edition.  Picking up another vertex for my laptop cuz i don't need tons of storage and that way i can put my laptop hdd in a xbox 360 encasing and have a 250gb hdd :).  The ocz vertex is crazy fast (about 230MB/s read) and can be bought for less than $4 per gigabyte if you shop around.  Got my first one for 94.99 after rebate at newegg for a christmas sale :).

snapple00

January 25, 2010 at 9:15am

I also think the price is a little too high right now. But I'd still love to get one some day.

How long are they supposed to last compared to a normal mechanical drive? 

justchad

January 25, 2010 at 8:52am

as much as I love speed, I'm not ready to pay such a premium for it. I'm gonna wait to see if we can get to about a $1.00 per gig. Or very close to it, and I wish they would get all the old screwed up drives off the market.

-Chad

Ntldr

January 25, 2010 at 7:35am

I am all for the SSD's, I really want one but the cost on them is pretty steep.  I am probably still going to buy one because the performance increase I have seen on a few computers with them is awesome. 

ceator3571

January 25, 2010 at 7:09am

For me the magic number for purchase would be about $300 for 256 GB or more (really 500 GB). That way I can get my OS (Win 7) and some key programs (a few games with save games, MS Office, browsers) on the SSD drive. The rest of the stuff can go on the slower drives.