SSD drives reviewed @El Reg

[Spacecadet]

Had been looking at those but decided I'd rather keep my optical drive, its my main iTunes machine so use it for ripping DVD's & CD's plus do a lot of burning on it. Could get an external writer but its less handy that way.

Looks like the uptake of SSD's has been good though, seen loads of people raving about them so hopefully, if they are selling well, the prices will be in the way down soon and more manufacturers will enter the market.

May get a wee one to replace the disk in my Mac Mini to see what all the fuss is about.

The japan earthquake might well send prices the other way

[Durbs]

use an optibay. place the operating system on the newly bought ssd and keep everything else on your current hard disk.

Had been looking at those but decided I'd rather keep my optical drive, its my main iTunes machine so use it for ripping DVD's & CD's plus do a lot of burning on it. Could get an external writer but its less handy that way.

Looks like the uptake of SSD's has been good though, seen loads of people raving about them so hopefully, if they are selling well, the prices will be in the way down soon and more manufacturers will enter the market.

May get a wee one to replace the disk in my Mac Mini to see what all the fuss is about.

[eek]

I really fancy one for my laptop but use Boot Camp on it so need at least 500GB, looks like that'd cost me £750

Ah well, maybe in 12 months.

use an optibay. place the operating system on the newly bought ssd and keep everything else on your current hard disk.

I have to comment that the review is tulip tho. The current state of the art drive is the Vertex 3. One drive not even included in the view is the Vertex 3.

[Durbs]

I really fancy one for my laptop but use Boot Camp on it so need at least 500GB, looks like that'd cost me £750

Ah well, maybe in 12 months.

[Sysman]

Seven SSD sizzlers