Will 2011 be the year of the SSD?

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Capacities are growing bigger, speeds are getting faster and prices are starting to become quite atractive.

You can already find great SSDs at about of $2.00/gb. Hopefully we'll see something closer to $1.5 and why not maybe even $1.00.
 
It won't be the year of the SSD until prices come down to what they are for HDD's, which is about $0.10 - $0.20 per gigabyte.
 
Lord Nassirbannipal said:
It won't be the year of the SSD until prices come down to what they are for HDD's, which is about $0.10 - $0.20 per gigabyte.
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I don't think they have to get that low.

Capacity wise they are orders of magnitude behind HDDs. It'll probably take decades before you see a 2tb SSD much less at a competitive price.

It's all about performance. Low capacity SSDs have become very popular as boot drives. As prices go lower you'll be able to pick a 120gb instead of 40gb to install not only OS but games and apps. You can always store your media files on a HDD.
 
didnt say anything about price v capacity, or price v performance, of which an SSD wins resoundingly.

if you had an ssd in 2010, you know what i am saying, if you didnt, you dont :)
 
SSDs have their use - high performance, low capacity, low write rate storage. But HDDs will still prevail for most users that just want lot of disk space and don't care about the 5 seconds extra of boot time.

I might see myself using a SSD for my OS drive on my workstation, but as far as my server stuff goes, I am sticking to HDD.
 
nd don't care about the 5 seconds extra of boot time.
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well, respectfully of course, man the benefits of SSD go far far beyond this. load times are the most unimportant things that people do with computers. takes twelve seconds. big deal. you are on the desktop for orders of magnitude greater amounts of time. and the whole time, with every single task that you do or undertake, you reap massive benefits with an SSD> from email, browsing, to high performance gaming, to massive multitasking, you can just do more, faster. best thing to do is put your workstation on a SSD, then a week later, go back to hdd computer. you will be tearing your eyes out every time you try to do something it is SLOW.
 
I see no differences, SSD vs. HDD when it comes to email, browsing, and multitasking. With games I only see a different in loading times.

The one great benefit to SSD is the power savings especially for laptops. For desktop, I don't know if it is worth it...
 
hellosky said:
I see no differences, SSD vs. HDD when it comes to email, browsing, and multitasking. With games I only see a different in loading times.

The one great benefit to SSD is the power savings especially for laptops. For desktop, I don't know if it is worth it...
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The differences in power consumption are actually pretty minimal. That said, I think you must be bottlenecked somewhere else because I'll never go back to spinning metal for primary-disk storage again. I had a 160GB Intel G2 in my MacBook Pro, and I now have the same drive in my work laptop, and a OCZ RevoDrive in my desktop, and they all just feel so ridiculously snappy compared to anything else. I actually feel the least difference in gaming (I load first in SC2, that's about it); daily things like web browsing, app load times, multitasking etc. are just blisteringly fast now. Granted, I have a 4GHz i7 and 8GB RAM backing its 400+MB/sec speeds, but still.
 
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