At what price will you buy an SSD?

[GlacierFreeze]

$1.50/gb

 

[LamTek]

I was hoping for around ~$1.20 per GB, but I'm tired of waiting, so I'm willing to pay up to $1.75/GB.

 

[Emulex]

Perhaps . . . but not when you are retired. 🙂

Sir i would respect that when you are retired you realize the value of every moment in life even more so than I do. After turning 40 - you start to realize how precious every moment with family/life is - so if i can get everything done in less time - that is more time for the MOST important aspect of life.

Are you a veteran?

 

[KAZANI]

By the time solid states reach $500/TB, where will mechanical drives be, when they currently are at $50/TB?

 

[Drsignguy]

By far the best Improvement I have made to MY PCs. Until you get one, you just wont know how fast a SSD can be. It made my Q6600's so much snappier, not to mention what is does for my 2600K setup. Price is worth what you are willing to pay for. I wanted to see what it can really do and it truly makes a huge difference! 🙂

 

[tweakboy]

When they are 100 dollars for a 300gb Ill buy it.

Right now that is like 400 or 500 bucks... crazy not worth it..

 

[corkyg]

Sir i would respect that when you are retired you realize the value of every moment in life even more so than I do. After turning 40 - you start to realize how precious every moment with family/life is - so if i can get everything done in less time - that is more time for the MOST important aspect of life. Are you a veteran?

No disagreement there, but parallel activities all having priorities make computer speed less important. Family life in particiular. So, when I need to have a long task performed on the PC, I simply go do something else more important on the overall scale. And yes, I am a veteran. US Army retired - 26 years of active duty.

I can vividly recall the impatience of my youth. 🙂

As far as speed goes, from the time I press the power button on my T510 laptop, it takes exactly 30 seconds to boot and load to the fingerprint scan or password feature. The speed to scan or type the PW would be the same for a SSD. Right? After the scan, it takes exactly 10 seconds to have Win 7 fully booted and loaded with all startup elements.

So, in order to determine value, exactly how many seconds does it take your SSD to fuilly boot and load Win 7? My total is 40 seconds. Is saving a few seconds a day worth $150?

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

$1/GB. I got my original Intel G1 X25Ms for ~$1.20/GB, upgraded to 120GB Vertex 2s (32nm) last Thanksgiving for $120 each.

 

[groberts101]

most that speculate on the gains/per $$$ are thinking they should have upgraded earlier once they finally get an SSD. Depends on usage more than anything of course, but the real gain is in the time saved throughout the logged on session. Not just the bootup/shutdowns. Is basically the law of averages and it's much improved with SSD.

 

[groberts101]

$1/GB. I got my original Intel G1 X25Ms for ~$1.20/GB, upgraded to 120GB Vertex 2s (32nm) last Thanksgiving for $120 each.

WOW!.. a 120GB Vertex 2 for $120. And.. last thanksgiving? They were $300 then and run $200 now. Pretty good deal as even used drives run more than that.

 

[Cerb]

<$1.5/GB, with similar overall quality to Intel. But, I could hesitate, if $1/GB seems imminent by that time. Under $1/GB, I'm definitely in.

By the time solid states reach $500/TB, where will mechanical drives be, when they currently are at $50/TB?

Still 10-20x slower (or worse), if not 100-200x slower (or worse). It's not fair to compare cost v. capacity to mechanical drives, as much as it is to compare cost at a desired capacity v. spending money left over from your wages.

 

[KingstonU]

time is money. the amount of time i've saved outweighs any costs. they pay for themselves 10x over a very short period of time

I like this way of thinking as well. It's worth paying extra money to gain more of your life back. Or just to have time to do the things you enjoy is another way of putting it.

 

[Joseph F]

I'd probably buy one when I can get a 160GB for $60. (37&#162;/GB)

 

[gevorg]

I'll move to full SSD (including storage) once prices approach $1/GB. One grand for a terabyte sounds like a lot, but its well worth it, plus I don't use much storage anyway.

 

[thescreensavers]

I paid 120 for 60gb, It died on me. The speed wasn't all what I had hopped for. yea shit opened faster and booted faster, On my laptop.

But back with my HDD I dont really miss it much.

 

[yinan]

Ha, that is soooo true. Every time I have to use another PC, I die a little inside 🙁 It feels sooooooo slow compared to mine.

EDIT: Paid $2.35/GB (1500DKK for my 120GB G2).

Yup, my desktop at home is so much faster than all of our mechanical based "enterprise" grade storage at the office.

And I just spent another $900 to max out my array at 8x128 GB drives and damn it is speedy... 🙂

 

[Anubis]

when i can get a 250 GB drive for 300$ or less

 

[deimos3428]

I won't be buying another SSD until they're well south of $1/GB.

 

[Genx87]

Got in on an Intel 120GB G2 deal two weeks ago? 170\120=1.41\GB

That is fine. I paid more for my 74GB raptor and this thing is the best upgrade I have done to one of my computers. It comes right in with Voodoo2, Celeron 450a, and Geforce 2 MX for "wow" factor.

 

[God Mode]

Current prices are fine for boot drives. It will be a looooong time before I consider them for replacing all the spindle drives. Unless well off, I really don't understand people that want to store their static files on an SSD at current prices. Perhaps some form of mild ocd.

 

[pm]

I bought an 80GB, used it for a month or two and then sold it, then bought a 120GB and did the same thing. I don't like messing with what can fit on the drive and what can't. I won't buy another one until the drive is over 500GB and I'm paying less than $1/gb... which is probably two years or so.

And, yes, I probably could be considered to suffer from a mild form of OCD. 🙂

 

[abaez]

I bought a Vertex 2 120gb last year for about $160 (this was when we had cashback, plus I added a rebate, and no tax). It's nice, but not mindblowing. I won't buy another until they get down to $1/gb.

 

[Zap]

Price per gigabyte anyways.

$2/GB has me buying SSDs for the systems I use the most. $1/GB hot deals has me buying them just because. :awe:

I'm curious, what is the most satisfying part of owning the SSD though?

I see computing performance as the sum of all the parts. I'm on an overclocked Core i7 975X with two graphics cards in SLI. Why would I not want to add an SSD to that mix?

Basically, I enjoy not having to wait as long. It isn't just booting Windows either. For those who say "but my HDD doesn't limit me because I don't do those things all at the same time," I say that you've been trained well by your slow HDD. :awe: With an SSD you don't have to adjust your computing behavior to match storage limitations. No need to leave your computer on overnight so that it can auto update and virus scan while you aren't using it.

Think about it this way. Why do a lot of gamers upgrade their graphics cards? Why can't we play games at lower resolutions or lower graphical settings or lower FPS? You get the same game, right? The zombies still want to eat your brains, you were still overrun by hundreds of minions while you were trying to mine resources and that sniper on top of yon hill is still one annoying biatch.

Well, you upgrade your graphics card because you want more than to just merely be able to run the game. You want FPS faster than the eye can see. You want eye candy because that makes or breaks the female night elves. You want more.

Why is it then so difficult to understand that some of us want more with our storage subsystem.

The system I was sporting over 5 years ago was a dual core socket 939 setup with some random 7200RPM HDD, 2GB RAM and a Radeon X800 of some sort. My subsequent graphics card was a GeForce 8800 GT.

Everything I use my computer for today could be run on that setup. Doesn't mean I would want to if I could afford not to. ^_^

My main target is to see two years of demonstrated reliability. Then I have a price target of $0.65/GB. Until then, I'm not in a hurry. 🙂

Intel's already got the demonstrated reliability. You might be waiting a while for the price.

 

[Termie]

It seems that most people who have purchased an SSD don't regret it, regardless of cost, and most people who don't have one will only buy one when they are ridiculously cheap.

Come on, guys, let's be serious. Who here hasn't blown $100 on an upgrade that had little impact on your overall experience (or a bad meal, or an ugly pair of jeans)? Raise your hands.

On the other hand, I consider my 60GB Agility 2 the best $100 I've ever spent. On anything. Period. Admit it, upgrading a boot drive is a pain in the **s, and that's why you guys aren't doing it.

Of course, prices have gone up recently (amazingly), and OCZ's reputation is in toilet, but you can still get a Corsair Sandforce 60GB drive for under $130, no rebate: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820233124. About $2/GB, but its effect on computer use is priceless.

 

[Puffnstuff]

If you move to an ssd and have good hardware you'll see an immediate difference across the board.