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Trying to explain the need for a 600G SSD to your wife

Don't explain - make a deal. She gets a $1200 designer dress and you get your SSD. 🙂
 
Ertaz said:
Anyone had any success?
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Got to love the signature.....guess im in the same boat, my PC is commandeered most of the time by the wife for...........wait for it....................facebook and farmville!!

Just install a Corsair Force 128 SF1200.......will use for doc and pic (real nice to see thumb nail populate instantly), Music and Vids on the Storage drive...

Certainly could get a 600Gb SSD past her!
 
dpodblood said:
A 600GB SSD? Try explaining it to me first. SSD's are not for storage.
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Yeah - that's a bit of a muchness. But, 320GB is not out of reason if you have a laptop with only one drive slot and you need OS, software, and storage space, especially for digital imagery work.
 
Or you can just buy an external enclosure and just toss a one TB drive in your laptop bag for storage.
 
I've got one of those WD Slim 1TB drives. Works like a treat although i don't have an SSD for the laptop yet.
 
I just saw it on Intel's roadmap and thought about using some of my bonus $ for it. It would be sweet. Just hard to look her in the eye and explain it.

Btw I am using an Athlon 64 3200+ running XP. The machine in my sig was meant for me, but she needed it more. So I am biding my time....
 
the large units will be hybrid slc and mlc for servers. probably the cost of a nice premium designer dress no doubt 😉 or a nice pair of louboutin's or a cheap louis bag. I bet you could get neiman's to go fetch you one 😉 and put it on your neiman's charge
 
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Although the performance usually scales with capacity, 600GB seems overkill IMO. Then again, I almost always buy midlevel components as chasing bleeding edge is expensive and disheartening when the next generation comes out. This is exacerbated in the video card segment, but still relevant in this new SSD frontier.
 
I agree getting that big of an SSD now does not make alot of sense. The price per GB is way too high right now. I keep hoping the new Intel will somehow lower the price per GB.
 
Yah, I think past a certain point the price/performance ratio is just not there. Anything beyond 256GB is far too much for an average computer. You also have to consider that using one for lots of write operations is a good way to throw a lot of money away. Write amplification starts to eat away at that overpriced flash disk space and eventually you wind up with an expensive paperweight. a 600 GB SSD will probably give you about 540 GB of usable space to start with, and then as cells get electrically degraded and reallocated, your existing open space continues to drop.
 
Ertaz said:
Anyone had any success?
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Just saw your signature... that's your wife's PC? Is wife's PC = your PC? 🙂 I'd follow corky's advice. With that thinking, it's sounds like corky'll be very busy and very sleepy next week.
 
Tebor0 said:
By this do you mean that you feel it's foolish when considering the $/GB or is there a software/hardware reason not to use SSD as a backup?
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What I mean is that a high capacity SSD is way to expensive, and ultimately unnecessary for simple file storage. Most people can make due with an SSD < 200 GB to install OS/Apps/Games. Not to mention SSD's have limited writes, so you aren't going to want to be changing files around all the time.
 
Have a seat with your wifey and talk about lolcats. This will make her mind mush. Then go something like "...dear, are you open to the idea of something really big and black that will never tire?...". Explain that it will give her more pleasure than it will you.
 
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