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

[DominionSeraph]

LOL @ spending money on computers.

 

[frostedflakes]

LOL @ spending money on computers.

You do realize you're on a computer enthusiast forum, right? :hmm:

 

[Cerb]

LOL @ spending money on computers.

Even cheap computers aren't free.

 

[EJ257]

The last HDD I bought were a pair of WD 2TB Greens ($79.99 ea.) from Newegg 2 weeks before the flood. It finally filled out my 5 bay external enclosure. I didn't buy another storage device until I bought a Samsung 830 during Memorial Day weekend this year for a boot drive. The price was finally right (for me anyway) to jump on an SSD.

 

[thelastjuju]

Since the flood fiasco, I've bought another brand new Crucial M4 and 2x used WD Blacks off ebay. (one a 750gb, one a 1tb)

.. its great when you get USED drives that still have 3 year warranties remaining.. that's three times what I'd get with a brand new Seagate!

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

I got a Western Digital Black 1TB since the flood for almost double what I paid for the same drive before the flood. I have also bought two SSDs this year, an Intel® SSD 320 80GB and just got a new Intel SSD 520 180GB.

 

[Arcanedeath]

I have only got one drive since the flood a 60gb SSD for my file server / media server boot drive I have a total of 2 ssds and 6 2 tb drives and 1 1tb drive between the rig in my sig and my file / media server.

 

[SheHateMe]

I havent bothered with the SSD craze. Im just a college student and Im not overly concerned with how fast my games load up before I can blink. Maybe in the future...but Im not buying into the trend atm. I have a 2TB HDD for storage/games/etc and a 1TB for the OS and music/school work.

 

[ky54]

Without question the floods influenced my purchase of hard drives. Before the flood I was price watching the WD 3 TB drive drop down close to my range and - WHAP - the floods hit. Yeah, thousands died and unbelievable suffering but, damn it, I wanted a cheap drive! Since then I've only bought two drives both of which were SSD's one I bought to update and speed up my gaming computer and the other for a build I need for all the file transferring I do. In both cases the SSD's exceeded my expectations and it's mind-blowing to see large transfers done almost "instantly" relatively speaking.

Now I'm again eying the 3 TB drives drop closer to my price so I expect a major "natural" disaster (natural my arse) to foil my saving of a few bucks.

 

[Emulex]

server wise since flood:
16 50GB SLC = $800 shipped
24 2TB HP Hot plug SATA =3542.40 shipped
6 600GB 15K SAS HP hot plus SAS DP = 1393.20 shipped

Raid-5 for backup (12 x 2TB), Raid-10 for large bulk storage (12 x 2TB), core storage for VM's (6 x 600gb raid-10).

Raid-0 16 SSD for ETL/Catalog database server.