What would it take for you to upgrade to an SSD?

[AdamK47]

For me it would have to be...
- ~ $0.50 per GB.
- Non-degraded performance over time or the ability to correct it without a wipe of all data.

 

[rcpratt]

Enjoy the wait.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: rcpratt
Enjoy the wait.

You never know...

 

[Excelsior]

Price drop of some kind. I really would like to get into SSDs but I can't justify spending so much on such a small drive. Seems like even an 80GB drive would fill up fast with apps/games.

 

[Gillbot]

Prices more in line with regular HDDs. That's about it really. I care more about volume than speed.

 

[alcoholbob]

Enjoy the wait indeed. Even if the manufacturing process went down a node every 2 years (extremely optimistic) it would still be at least 6 years before it comes down to $0.5/GB, assuming increasing world demand makes zero impact on prices.

 

[Excelsior]

$1/GB would honestly be enough for me.

 

[her209]

Affordable PCIe-based

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: Excelsior
$1/GB would honestly be enough for me.

That would be a good start actually.

 

[ilkhan]

Good luck waiting for $.50/GB. Thats at least a couple years off.
For me, itd take, um, the Intel G2s being released, which was more than a month ago.

 

[zuffy]

I would @ $1 per GB. I already have 3 x Intel X25-M 80GB but I didn't have to pay for them.

 

[bradley]

For me to marginally invest in SSD, it would take $2 per GB. To seriously invest in SSD, around .50-$1 per GB. Also out-of-the-box operability is important to me. I enjoyed tweaking more when I was a kid. Now I'd rather have things just work. We're almost there, but not quite.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: ilkhan
Good luck waiting for $.50/GB. Thats at least a couple years off.
For me, itd take, um, the Intel G2s being released, which was more than a month ago.

that is what it took for me... and now i have one

OP, the no performance degradation thing is already about here... it is called TRIM...

just make sure to use windows 7 when it comes out (less than a month) or up to date linux

 

[DukeN]

$2 a gig and out of the box TRIM and other functionality with XP.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: DukeN
$2 a gig and out of the box TRIM and other functionality with XP.

XP trim is never gonna happen. TRIM is for windows 7 and above.
Well... although they are making programs to do a trim like function with XP.

 

[ChaosDivine]

$1-$1.25/GB for a 80-160GB drive and I'd get one in a heartbeat.

 

[jobz]

BTW, how much is it per GB now?

 

[taltamir]

depends on the drive.
the intel 80GB is now at about 250$ for 80GB, so 250 / 80 = 3.125 $/ GB.

Prices went up a lot when it was released due to limited supplies, but they are starting to drop again, they are still 20$ above MSRP...
you can get some other drives for a little less, but it is still all over 2$/GB.

 

[skid00skid00]

I have spent hundreds of dollars to overclock, and installing SSD's was easily 20 times more improvement than the 50% overclock and optimized memory timings. The response to EVERY mouseclick is just SO fast. Even something as non-intuitive as webpage display is faster... Keep that in mind if you are the type to want to push the envelope.

 

[mlah384]

I would like to see the SSD's around $1/GB as well... at least the same price range as the 15k rpm drives... and if they were same price as the raptors, I'd be all over em!

Also, I'd like to see larger sizes.. A LOT larger sizes... an 80gb or 160gb is just too small, especially for a laptop that can have only one drive... You'd have to carry around a larger external drive to store anything right now... For me, a 250gb-500gb would be ideal!

 

[MagickMan]

$1 /GB and I'd jump.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: mlah384
I would like to see the SSD's around $1/GB as well... at least the same price range as the 15k rpm drives... and if they were same price as the raptors, I'd be all over em!

Also, I'd like to see larger sizes.. A LOT larger sizes... an 80gb or 160gb is just too small, especially for a laptop that can have only one drive... You'd have to carry around a larger external drive to store anything right now... For me, a 250gb-500gb would be ideal!

the colossus would deliver on that... it tops at 500GB; with 1TB to come soon.
http://www.ocztechnology.com/p...series_sata_ii_3_5-ssd

Technically current SSDs have density that about matches spindle drives (slightly lower, this is why they are so small). The reason SSDs are not made as 2TB disks is simply because of the price; not density limitation.
A 10,000$ 2TB SSD that will be "last gen tech" in less than a year is not very appealing and nobody is bothering to make one (you can always raid0 multiple smaller drives).

 

[faxon]

SATA6Gb/s and about 75% of the price they are now. if they drop to half i will hop right on it tho

 

[AdamK47]

SATA3 is a good one too. The Serial ATA standard was made mainly for traditional hard drives. I can see the need for 6Gb SATA as the speed inceases and the cost decrease for these drives.

 

[taltamir]

you realize that we do not have a single spindle drive that can max out SATA1, not even the velociraptor... yet SATA3 is already a limitation for SSDs? exciting.