How spoiled are people with SSD's?

[Bauss]

I'm a bit of a anti SSD still. I see their benefits in laptops big time. But for desktops? I dunno. Reliability scares me. Longevity scares me a bit as well. And the cost vs capacity is too high. I'd just be getting one as a boot drive to have windows and the swap file on. Don't think i'd really get my money's worth.

Mostly though it's reliability and longevity for me. Too many reports of dead drives.

I believe most of the reliability issues are pretty much non-issues now. Write amplification on modern SSDs is likely a lot better now that TRIM and garbage collection are now standard. In addition, return rates on SSDs aren't significantly higher than HDDs at all. Intel's is 0.59% (IIRC) That's incredibly low for anything.

Regarding longevity, it takes years of constantly writing mass amounts of data to your drive to actually kill it. For example, a 256GB drive with 3000 P/E cycles can have 768TB written to it--that's ~52GB/day for 10 years, assuming a write amplification of 4 (higher than it probably will be).

Long story short: Stop worrying.

 

[Emulex]

the house cleaner could slam the hoover into your pc with the drive spinning and waste your hard drive(s). not so much with ssd. BASS kills hard drives (any vibrations, even vibrations like standing waves and different drive(rpm!)). your hard drives aren't as safe as you think these days with such high areal density my friend.

i see 96gb/$119 and 160gb $210 that is not bad for the madness of speed. you spend more on a graphics card that will be out of fashion in 6 months.

 

[Tom]

Play a game that had load screens and compare them with HDD vs SSD. If you dont mind waiting a minute or 2 for screens to load, sure, stay with an HDD.

I really don't have an argument with that, but what's your point ? I said SSDs save time.

That isn't the same as a video card. There are games you can't play at all without a good enough video card.

 

[aigomorla]

I have to admit, that's my kind of girl.

lmao....

Be thankful u dont have a super high ultra basis for your GF / Wife to collect her build on.

My Ex took 1 look at my system and setup and went "I WANT!."

Took me a while to explain to her, it would probably cost 1/3rd of what her car would cost..


AS for being spoiled.. umm... people see something better.. people know they can get.. then people want.

I couldnt possibly dream of going down from Raid 0 on my SSD's on any platform after being on it so long.

Its like how i wont build a non watercooled overclock computer.
Once u see how much nicer it is here... it becomes comfortable and a standard.

Who would want there 580GTX's to load 70C+ when on water they dont break 40C even with the voltage slider all the way to the max too might i add.

 

[Swampthing]

i see 96gb/$119 and 160gb $210 that is not bad for the madness of speed. you spend more on a graphics card that will be out of fashion in 6 months.

where are you seeing a 96gb for 119?

 

[Emulex]

newegg kingston $119/AR. seems like a pretty modern fast controller too.

 

[Swampthing]

I only see 2 kingston 96GB and both are $169.

Have a direct link? I'd actually get one at that size and price. Most that i've seen at that price point are 64GB.

 

[exdeath]

SSDs based on flash are still slow in the grand scheme of things. Give me STT MRAM that can saturate a QPI bus for two seconds as I transfer 100 GB of data, then launch the application "in place" where it resides in MRAM and just executes it in directly addressible memory space without needing to "load" anything from a "drive" to "ram". Lets get rid of hard drives and ram altogether and just have 100+ GB of zero wait state non volatile memory that can keep up with the cpu.

 

[Emulex]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-412-_-Product

$119 a/r

 

[Swampthing]

yeah, been a long day. Your A/R wasn't registering as anything to me. Duh, after rebate.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

So how many extra hours will a notebook with an SSD run ?

My Lenovo Edge 13 lasts 20-30 minutes longer with an Intel G2 120GB installed vs a WD Blue 640GB.

 

[Tom]

My Lenovo Edge 13 lasts 20-30 minutes longer with an Intel G2 120GB installed vs a WD Blue 640GB.

Thanks for the info. That's quite a lot, I can see where a notebook like yours would be great for classes and meetings.

 

[KlokWyze]

the house cleaner could slam the hoover into your pc with the drive spinning and waste your hard drive(s). not so much with ssd. BASS kills hard drives (any vibrations, even vibrations like standing waves and different drive(rpm!)). your hard drives aren't as safe as you think these days with such high areal density my friend.

I'm not sure many AT'ers here are having any problems with house cleaners, much less bass waves destroying data. That's a pretty desperate attempt to avoid buyer's remorse. :awe:

SSD's are still too expensive for me. When they match or come close to HDD's in price per GB I'll get a few, but TBH I don't care too much. Laptops I definitely see the benefit though.