The Twilight Gathering

Was looking for info on Solid State Drives, wondering when they might become more affordsable, and found this interesting report.

Be warned if you are not interested in Data rates, etc.. you probably won't be interested in this.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/products/SSD/downloads/SSD_vs_HDD_is_there_a_difference_Rev_3.pdf

Pen

I'm always suspicious of research that quotes Wikipedia as a source.
In fact, it seems like the speed improvements aren't huge - certainly not worth the 4x price hike unless you're on an unlimited budget.

Jago, research reviewer

Once they reach near terabyte capacities at the current price for a good 256gig SSD - Then I will say it is worth while. As it is now, to have one simply as a "main drive" or "OS drive" is not for me, and I would quickly fill it up. Sure you can organise it perhaps in such a way to use one along side a traditional HDD; but then you may start juggeling and be more hassel than its worth

The speed they offer of mechanical is certainly very noticable (x2 or 3x at a push at current), and can only improve along side (perhaps not always inclusive) of the increase of the capacity.

I'll be using traditional HDDs for the next year I reckon before I can justify the purchase of a SSD for my needs.

ssd have made some Big jumps this month the price now showing a decline agane

my 60gig cost me 130 (sandforce controller king ) windows 7 dose not boot in 7 sec but dose turn off in 3

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/240GB-OCZ-Vertex-2-35-SSD-up-to-285MB-s-READ-up-to-275MB-s-WRITE-50K-IOPS-Sandforce-Controller

375 so the bigger ones are droping now but as soon as win7 has the ablity to control trims in raid id be tempted to rad 2 thats what 550MB ,write a music cd in a sec

shame the 1TB ssd is still the price of small cars
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1TB-OCZ-Technology-Colossus-LT-MLC-Flash-1-x-SATA-3Gb-Read-260MB-s-Write-260MB-s-128MB-Cache

lol

I have Win 7, Ubuntu and LOTRO on an Intel 40 gig 2nd gen SSD. What more do you need . €95 here in sweden.