how many of you have bought SSDs since the flood, and not HDs?

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VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

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Curious.

Edit: A week or so after the floods (maybe two weeks? a month?), I picked up a pair of Seagate 7200.12 Retail-boxed 1TB HDs at BestBuy, that was just before they raised their prices and instituted a "limit one per customer" purchase limit.

But since then, I've pretty-much only purchased SSDs.

That, and a ton of flash drives. Not sure why I bought the flash drives, but they have been getting much cheaper lately.
 
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Smoblikat

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Not me, I just picked up a 2TB drive the other day for 100$. I think this is a fair price (much better than the 70$ they were before the flooding). I think the flood is overdramatized as an excuse to charge 90$ for a 320gb HDD. I think 50$ for a 500gb, and 75 for a 1TB is reasonable.
 
Denithor

Denithor

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Yes.

I purchased a 1.5TB drive like a month before the flooding ($58 - so glad I found that deal) and haven't needed more storage since.

Have purchased two SSDs since then, an Intel 320 120GB for $120 and an Intel 330 180GB for $130. Hit price points that I couldn't resist.
 
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Zap

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VirtualLarry said:
Edit: A week or so after the floods (maybe two weeks? a month?), I picked up a pair of Seagate 7200.12 Retail-boxed 1TB HDs at BestBuy
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That's the only HDD I've purchased since the floods. I remember it was pretty cheap, like $59.99 or something. Got it as a spare "just in case" and it is still inside the sealed box, unused. :\

SSDs? I've purchased literally multiple terabytes worth since then.
 
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Eeqmcsq

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I'm in that boat. I'd like grab a few 2TB HDDs, but I'm waiting for the price to drop down to pre-flood levels because I don't really need them right now.

Meanwhile, these SSD deals have been hot, and I've bought several SSDs instead.
 
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richaron

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I started building a new box a few weeks before the floods... didn't buy hdd's soon enough :(

Instead I got 2 x 60G SSD's (which will filter their way down to my lappy's/htpc). Only mechanical drive has been a usb3 2T seagate recently for ~AU$120. Still haven't built my puter properly...
 
ShintaiDK

ShintaiDK

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We bought SSDs only in this household. Not due to floods, but because the epicly slow speed of HDs is unbearable.
 
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Lonyo

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2TB internal just after the floods, before the majority of the price hike, and a 3TB external in April or so, and 2x128GB SSD but before the massive price drop. They are now about half what I paid (or I could get a 256GB for the same price).

And I don't see what's wrong with 100MB/s. Especially if you are capped around that for transfers due to gigabit ethernet.
 
Skurge

Skurge

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Got a 2TB WD just before the floods for like U$60, got a corsair F120 that was lying around the in the stock room for U$100 last month. The same money would have gotten me a 500GB Green drive (yuck).
 
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ericloewe

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A month or two before the floods, I bought 4 2TB Caviar Greens for ~90€ each.

Since then, I've only bought SSDs (one 128GB + one 256GB Samsung 830)
 
frostedflakes

frostedflakes

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Even after the flood HDD is still like an order of magnitude cheaper than SSD per GB (although SSD prices have dropped a ton lately). If you just want the most storage for your dollar and don't care about IOPS, HDD is still the pretty obvious choice. Looking to put together a file server here in the near future I think and will probably start off with one or two 2TB HDDs. Wish I would have started putting it together before the floods, but oh well, if you shop around you can get some decent HDD deals.
 
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AE-Ruffy

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i have two 750gb WD black drives(I think im right on the size)
I believe i've had them for 4 years. Still going strong. My main drive is a SSD.

I'm finally at the point where im considering a 2-3TB Drive, but the price is still too high for the 3Tb.

What i find funny is how on review sites, now that SSD's are out rotating drives are considered shit for gaming, when they don't improve much beyond load times. I game just fine off my WD drives.

Looking to build a nas, I expect 4 or 5 x3TB
 
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piasabird

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Never purchased or tried an SSD. It is a non-issue. I don't consider them ready for prime time.
 
Cerb

Cerb

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The flood didn't really change that much, on my end. Most people wouldn't notice the difference, anyway. I certainly haven't noticed enough to justify the costs, though I do appreciate the difference. Bugs in SSDs are far more common than bugs in HDDs, too. Personally, I don't get what everyone does, except for Exdeath's Java project copying example, that is just so slow on HDDs. RAM is good, and I use it.

But, I'm repairing a notebook, to hopefully be a cheap upgrade (I don't treat them gingerly, and am a keyboard snob, so used Thinkpads are my preference), and if it passes stress tests, I will outfit it with a 64GB 830. Why? Good HDDs start around $65, while good SSDs start around $75, and I'm barely using 15GB today. I would feel stupid saving that little bit of money, when I could get a substantial performance boost for almost the same cost.

But, large SSDs are still a bit too expensive, and all high-performance SSDs are effectively beta stage technology, today.
 
Carson Dyle

Carson Dyle

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I've purchased both since the flood. The cost to store all my pr0n on SSD would be astronomical.
 
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Emulex

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all machines deserve an ssd with the current price. saves energy too! plus countless hours of wasted worker time waiting for disk latency.

hell i picked up 16 50gb SLC drives for $800 off amazon (yeh still for sale, btw) going to fire up a raid-0 to get a sql server catalog going a lil' bit faster :)

If you can go all SSD , do it. backups are backups and all drives fail from 0-10 years from now. SSD drives tend to fail to read-only mode instead of read-nothing mode(mechanical), which can make recovery a niftier process.
 
Cerb

Cerb

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Emulex said:
all machines deserve an ssd with the current price. saves energy too!
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2.5" HDDs are right in line with SSDs for power consumption. More expensive low-power SSDs can use less, but most are <0.5W idle and around 2-4W busy.
 
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