Solid State Drive (SSD)

I'm thinking about up dating my laptop with an SSD was just wondering who all is running them and if they're worth it. All the reviews I have read and videos I've watched they seem like a far superior hard drive then the old type. Speaking of videos check this one out they connect 24 SSD's it's insane how fast the computer runs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

I know they're expensive but figured it would give my laptop a little performance boost.

 

I have two Dell laptops, each with SSD's. One's an i3 with an 80GB Intel and the other is an i5 w/a 60GB Samsung. I also have an HTPC w/a pair of 30GB Vertex drives in RAID 0. The speed boost is nice and I like that they are all silent. Hard to go wrong. I like that even though that 80GB is small, I have filled it to 99% and it still flies. Try that w/a HDD, where speed falls off as they fill up. Price per GB has dropped and now it's not so bad to spend for a 200 GB drive. I don't hoard a bunch of content on them, obviously. I have a server with 2TB platters for that stuff.

 

I have 5 of them, I put them in everything I own that needs a hard drive. It's the only way to fly...

Well almost everything I haven't put them in game consoles...yet...

 

SSD drives are nice but cost per GB is still a little high. I'd upgrade my laptop to one if it wasn't so old. Right now I wouldn't worry about upgrading a desktop though unless you're a gamer where it's all about squeezing as much speed as possible. The spinning platters are fine for my cheap ass right now but I always keep a backup on another drive or optical media in case one of those read/write heads decides to fall onto a platter and destroy everything.

 

I have a gaming lap top but it's a little old. I got it back in 2008. It's still an excellent performer. It's a Intel Core 2 duo 2.60 GHz 4 GB of ram (max ram) 64 bit operating system. NVIDIA GeForce 8600. I have a smaller everyday lap top with an i5 in it and my old one is still able to hang. My hard drives are pretty full so it takes a long time to boot up, load shut down etc. etc. the 128 GB isn't to bad of a price under 200 bucks.

I would love to put one in my PS3 I could only imagine how fast games would load

 

Well, you can always migrate it to the next laptop/device you get. Just keep the old drive on hand. Also, you don't need to spend big. You won't saturate the bus of a sata2 laptop w/a single SSD, so a sata3 drive wouldn't be worth the cost, IMO.

 

I put them in every PC that comes across my desk now. Don't even second guess it.

This is what I'm currently installing, just purchased 6 of them.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167050

 

I just bought an Asus Zenbook and it has one. It's fast plus turns on very fast. Id put one in my desktop if I hadn't just rebuilt it.

 

That's a pretty good price for a 120 gb's. I'm running two hard drives now think ill bite the bullet and pick a few up. Two bad the 500+ gb is over 800 bucks I have a lot of videos/movies and music looks like ill still be using my external 1tb for that.

 

SSD's are the way to go. You can't beat the speed they offer. The lack of space and prices are the only shitters about them, but get a big juicy 2tb for storage and your good.

 

Do it. I put one in my laptop and it was the best thing ever. I'll never go back.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227727

I put this in 'cept mine is the 120gig version.

I do believe I'll be putting one in my desktop when it get up set up again.

 

I was really hoping every would say they were crap and not worth it lol even though I already knew you guys wouldn't. Looks like ill be up grading here soon

 

They are good, considering most people never even hit the 500gb's or 1tb of a data hard drive, a SSD is a good choice because of the speed. You can also run dual hd's for a tower. I like the option of a SSD + Data HD

 

Put one in my new system awhile back. Theres no such thing as load times anymore, things just appear. I have a 64 GB that holds my OS and my programs. I've segregated my user files and documents to my platter drive.