[coastie65]

Found a nice SSD with 960Gb Capacity, but boy is it ever pricey. Oddly enough, NewEgg is out of stock on that thing. Have look: http://www.newegg.co...7-665-_-Product

[compnovo]

coastie65, on 18 March 2011 - 07:53 AM, said:

Found a nice SSD with 960Gb Capacity, but boy is it ever pricey. Oddly enough, NewEgg is out of stock on that thing. Have look: http://www.newegg.co...7-665-_-Product

Hey coastie,
$3159, and they're out of stock!?! Who can afford those things???
(Well, nobody in my crowd, anyway )
I went the more customary (and affordable!) route: I got an SSD big enough for the OS, Office, and several of my favorite games. There had to be enough room for the games or I would have defeated my whole purpose for getting an SSD --- faster load times and, it appears, improved fps. I see some folks going with 60 and 90 GB drives but I thought 120 (or 128) GB was the sweet spot.

[coastie65]

If it wasn't for the fact that it is time for a new set of wheels, I might consider it...............maybe. You can bet the bank would be on the phone within 5 mins after purchase checking that. Heck, when I was at Circuit City and bought my TV ( $1500 ) they wouldn't approve it ( I was using my debit card ). I had to call the bank and ask what the heck was going on and found out I had a daily limit on the card. She went ahead and eased it for the purchase though after I told her I was trying to buy a TV. I'm not sure I like the idea of a card based SSD, but guess it is Ok.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 18 March 2011 - 09:48 AM

[waldojim]

All things considered. That really isn't a bad price. You get the speed, and power of raid SSD's, and the storage demanded by todays multimedia. More importantly - for the right company, VERY LARGE websites and databases can be easily stored on there, and retrieved quicker than ANY spinning drive raid array.

[LiveBrianD]

That price is rediculous. I'd get a small SSD for the OS and Programs and perhaps, if I needed great speed, a WD caviar black 2TB for my files. That'll only be a few hundred bucks.

[mjd420nova]

I wasn't that interested in the bigger ones. 75 GB was just right and it fit the budget. I just needed the speed for rendering video clips and photo elements. Once I burn to a DVD/CD, the final works goes to the home server for access by all. This keeps things tidy and it's easier to keep track of what I'm working on. I don't use it as a boot drive so it's more like a scratch drive.

[compnovo]

mjd420nova, on 18 March 2011 - 03:28 PM, said:

I wasn't that interested in the bigger ones. 75 GB was just right and it fit the budget. I just needed the speed for rendering video clips and photo elements. Once I burn to a DVD/CD, the final works goes to the home server for access by all. This keeps things tidy and it's easier to keep track of what I'm working on. I don't use it as a boot drive so it's more like a scratch drive.

Hey mjd,
Which one did you get?

[waldojim]

I would never have considered the SSD's for my media center until recently... I found that when I attempted to use Nero Recode, I was actually having issues reading from the spinning RAID ARRAY quick enough to keep nero satisfied!

[mjd420nova]

I bought the Corsair unit, been about a year now and it was a sale item for $200. I see where Corsair has now got a little bigger one (80 GB) on sale for $150. which is about right. and should fit any budget with a little wise selection of other parts. The attractive part was the read/write speeds as I intended to use it for photo rendering and with large photo files, waiting can get annoying.

This post has been edited by mjd420nova: 19 March 2011 - 10:46 AM

[compnovo]

mjd420nova, on 19 March 2011 - 10:45 AM, said:

I bought the Corsair unit, been about a year now and it was a sale item for $200. I see where Corsair has now got a little bigger one (80 GB) on sale for $150. which is about right. and should fit any budget with a little wise selection of other parts. The attractive part was the read/write speeds as I intended to use it for photo rendering and with large photo files, waiting can get annoying.

Corsair was one of the brands I was considering, primarily because the reviews for it were very good, like the Intel's reveiws. What swayed me was the sale price of the Intel (at the size I wanted).

[LincolnSpector]

coastie65, on 18 March 2011 - 07:53 AM, said:

Found a nice SSD with 960Gb Capacity, but boy is it ever pricey. Oddly enough, NewEgg is out of stock on that thing. Have look: http://www.newegg.co...7-665-_-Product

This is probably used in some very specific, and rare, professional purposes. Maybe very complicated CAD work.

It's probably out of stock because they don't sell enough of them to stock it. Saying its out of stock sounds better than saying it's a special order item, which it probably is.

Lincoln

[coastie65]

LincolnSpector, on 20 March 2011 - 10:50 AM, said:

coastie65, on 18 March 2011 - 07:53 AM, said:

Found a nice SSD with 960Gb Capacity, but boy is it ever pricey. Oddly enough, NewEgg is out of stock on that thing. Have look: http://www.newegg.co...7-665-_-Product

This is probably used in some very specific, and rare, professional purposes. Maybe very complicated CAD work.

It's probably out of stock because they don't sell enough of them to stock it. Saying its out of stock sounds better than saying it's a special order item, which it probably is.

Lincoln

Yeah, probably so. I hadn't thought of that. It was the only one listed that was shown as being out of stock. I guess we'll go ghtrough the slow evolution of High prices and low capacity until they get so commonplace, that it will reverse. As I recall, While the 3 1/2" Floppy was common, the Hdd was still rather small in capacity and rather high in price. How things have changed, and I believe this will too. as I think the SSD's are the next evolutionary storage device.

[LincolnSpector]

coastie65, on 20 March 2011 - 11:24 AM, said:

Yeah, probably so. I hadn't thought of that. It was the only one listed that was shown as being out of stock. I guess we'll go ghtrough the slow evolution of High prices and low capacity until they get so commonplace, that it will reverse. As I recall, While the 3 1/2" Floppy was common, the Hdd was still rather small in capacity and rather high in price. How things have changed, and I believe this will too. as I think the SSD's are the next evolutionary storage device.

I don't see a time in the foreseeable future where SSDs will be able to compete with HDDs on a dollar-per-giggabyte basis. But it's possible that large enough SSDs will get cheap enough to become the standard, and HDDs will become common only where one needs massive storage.

If I were building a desktop for daily use today, I would have a 64GB SSD C: drive containing Windows, My Programs, the Registry, etc. Then I'd put my data files on a 500GB HDD. Except that the only desktop I have now is my test PC, which I keep as generic as possible. I don't know of a laptop that would allow me to set up that configuration.

Lincoln

[LiveBrianD]

LincolnSpector, on 21 March 2011 - 08:08 AM, said:

coastie65, on 20 March 2011 - 11:24 AM, said:

Yeah, probably so. I hadn't thought of that. It was the only one listed that was shown as being out of stock. I guess we'll go ghtrough the slow evolution of High prices and low capacity until they get so commonplace, that it will reverse. As I recall, While the 3 1/2" Floppy was common, the Hdd was still rather small in capacity and rather high in price. How things have changed, and I believe this will too. as I think the SSD's are the next evolutionary storage device.

I don't see a time in the foreseeable future where SSDs will be able to compete with HDDs on a dollar-per-giggabyte basis. But it's possible that large enough SSDs will get cheap enough to become the standard, and HDDs will become common only where one needs massive storage.

If I were building a desktop for daily use today, I would have a 64GB SSD C: drive containing Windows, My Programs, the Registry, etc. Then I'd put my data files on a 500GB HDD. Except that the only desktop I have now is my test PC, which I keep as generic as possible. I don't know of a laptop that would allow me to set up that configuration.

Lincoln

I know some laptops allow you to use a PCI-E SSD, as well as a standard 2.5" SATA spinning HD. Then you can boot from the SSD while still storing your data on the spinning drive. For instance, I've heard of people doing that with 11.6" ultraportables like the HP dm1z.

[smax013]

LincolnSpector, on 21 March 2011 - 08:08 AM, said:

coastie65, on 20 March 2011 - 11:24 AM, said:

Yeah, probably so. I hadn't thought of that. It was the only one listed that was shown as being out of stock. I guess we'll go ghtrough the slow evolution of High prices and low capacity until they get so commonplace, that it will reverse. As I recall, While the 3 1/2" Floppy was common, the Hdd was still rather small in capacity and rather high in price. How things have changed, and I believe this will too. as I think the SSD's are the next evolutionary storage device.

I don't see a time in the foreseeable future where SSDs will be able to compete with HDDs on a dollar-per-giggabyte basis. But it's possible that large enough SSDs will get cheap enough to become the standard, and HDDs will become common only where one needs massive storage.

If I were building a desktop for daily use today, I would have a 64GB SSD C: drive containing Windows, My Programs, the Registry, etc. Then I'd put my data files on a 500GB HDD. Except that the only desktop I have now is my test PC, which I keep as generic as possible. I don't know of a laptop that would allow me to set up that configuration.

Lincoln

There are laptops that have two hard drive bays. They tend to be 17" laptops. One example is an HP DV7.

There are also options to remove optical drives from some laptops in order to install a second hard drive. I know that there are some kits available, for example, to do that with some MacBook Pro models.

Then there are some ExpressCard SSD drives that you can use as a boot drive. While not as fast as a "native" SSD drive, they can be faster than a traditional hard drive. With this approach, you can boot from the ExpressCard drive and then leave the regular hard drive as a data drive (an potentially a redundant boot drive in case you have problems). I know this has been done with MacBook Pros that had ExpressCard slots (the pre-unibody 15 inch and any 17 inch). I would assume it could be done with Windows computers too.

[advaneil]

That's great info..thanks a lot for this useful information...




Thanks

This post has been edited by coastie65: 21 August 2012 - 07:30 AM
Reason for edit: Removed sapm link