I love My SSD,

[dogzilla]

£30? Hope you back up

[vetran]

thanks, I probably will wait but £0.50 /GB it was a darn good deal.

I was just astounded by the change, its epic.

[administrator]

Tempted but unsure how much hassle it would be on an existing PC with an existing disk.

Upgraded a PC a couple of weeks ago for someone in the office and the drive I bought came with a copy of Norton Ghost and a SATA to USB connector. Whacked the drive into a USB port on the machine, Ghosted the HD over and it worked a treat. Piece of p*ss.

I have SSDs at home and in the office - is like having dual monitors, could not go back to standard drive now. Windows boots and reboots a hell of a lot faster, VMs run smoother, large volumes of emails download quicker. They are worth the money.

vetran, wouldn't worry about buying more - they are rapidly coming down in price. Keep your powder dry until you really need them and see what the price is like then.

[vetran]

Wait a couple of weeks and you'll still think its too slow.

nope I have a work laptop, next to that Global warming is slow.

[VectraMan]

I read about an SSD drive you use as a cache to your existing drive. It's small, 20Gb or so, and from my understanding it wouldn't show up as a new drive at all, you install some special software and it automagically puts frequently read files on the SSD.

I think that's the deal anyway. Anyone?

There's a load of those around, but it's now looking somewhat pointless given how cheap SSDs have become. If you have a 20GB cache, then that's a lot of data, more than you're likely to load on a frequent basis to make the system work. Unless you really care about Windows boot times (which I never understand myself), then I can't believe it'd do a lot of good. You'd be much better off spending the money on extra RAM (which is also used as a cache).

For us code monkeys, having your build on an SSD probably makes a lot of difference, as that's reading and writing a lot of small files. I suspect most users don't see much benefit. Although I do like the fact my laptop is completely silent (until the processor fan cuts in), and vibration free.

[eek]

Wait a couple of weeks and you'll still think its too slow.

[d000hg]

I read about an SSD drive you use as a cache to your existing drive. It's small, 20Gb or so, and from my understanding it wouldn't show up as a new drive at all, you install some special software and it automagically puts frequently read files on the SSD.

I think that's the deal anyway. Anyone?

[VectraMan]

ebuyer had a £30 deal for a Kingston v+200 60GB, just enough for a decent boot drive. Not the best but good enough I bought two now wish I had brought more.

I saw that. Couldn't believe it was that cheap, when I paid £110 for 128GB only 4 or 5 months ago.

But I suspect your benefit is 50% new OS install, 25% Windows 7, 25% SSD. I bought a W7 Dell laptop and then upgraded to an SSD, but to be honest the SSD didn't make all that much of a difference. It was a pretty fast machine with a pretty fast hard disk already.

[d000hg]

Tempted but unsure how much hassle it would be on an existing PC with an existing disk.

[vetran]

ebuyer had a £30 deal for a Kingston v+200 60GB, just enough for a decent boot drive. Not the best but good enough I bought two now wish I had brought more.


Desktop is next.

That will have raid data drives and SSD boot with online backup.

[FiveTimes]

just put windows 7 & SSD on my lappy, its incredible. Even IE seems fast.

worth the £30!!!!

so if you are doubting the benefits , just do it.

£30 ? What did you buy ?

[The_Equalizer]

I am in total agreement. New machine for work with nice shiny SSD boots in a handful of seconds. Is that good news though?

[vetran]

just put windows 7 & SSD on my lappy, its incredible. Even IE seems fast.

worth the £30!!!!

so if you are doubting the benefits , just do it.