Is a solid state drive worth it???

I don't think right now they are worth it. But if you have the cash to spend it greatly imprves read times. I think write times are still slow though. Almost comparable to most 7200 rmp drives. Correct me if I am wrong. I also read on engadget that some larger SSD's were right around the corner, there was liek a 800 gig + drive, but it would cost you about 10 grand lol...

i dont think there worth the money right now andyou dont get that much hard drive space either with them... they will come down in price in a year or two just like everything that comes out...

This is a great question. I am also curious about this. Whos' got a SSD?

Wait 6 months...

i think they will be good in future
but right now the price is very high regarding the proformance gain & the capacity

Graphically, you won't notice any performance gains. Read times are faster, they are more resistant to drops, and if a few more minutes of battery life are of the utmost importance to you then you definitely have a need for one. They currently suffer from slow data write rates.

But if you will be using your computer for regular stuff then it's something you don't really need.

Just wait a few more months to see what they come up with and how prices are affected. While I'm quite interested in one of these to use as a system drive for faster boot up times and serving certain things over a network I'm waiting for them to offer more space, better price and have the initial bugs worked out.

They will become the standard, no question about it, but that won't happen until a few years.

People maybe are forgetting SSD only stands for solid state, IE not containing any moving parts. Solid State, non moving parts. Ie you flash card is a SSD. If SSD can get up in the main topic, heat and size and data transfer rates. It could replace a lot of type of media forms I feel.

Basically I feel solid state could be the future, moving parts die quicker. fact? no scracthes or data degradation either.

currently cost too high/vs technology.. im rambling..

SSD is currently really only worth it for the 15k rpm 3.5" low capacity (like 30-150GB) enterprise level hard drives that are currently located in server racks mainly due to the better reliability, less heat, faster read speed, and size.

On the consumer end the price/performance ratio is still too high. On desktops a $200 150GB 10k rpm raptor is a much better value and in desktops while being close in read/write rates and just suffering a lag in access times. A 7k200 200gb 7.2k rpm notebook drive is still arguably better despite being $200 as well.

I don't see too many people on the new Macbook Aires choosing the $1,000 SSD option just yet and its doubtful SSD drives will go that rapidly down in price in the short term... there is a looming memory shortage in the market that is propping up memory prices.

True and media is media it's been around forever they'll always will become a better media format/storage type.

I think with SSD as price permits heck look how good it works in cellphones/pda's/nanos. cost vs technology and demand for it right now. If SSD takes off and fits in the less heat, super high storage, excellent data retention.. and write speeds easily achieving the speed of the HD spindle writes.. eventually doing away with HD/motors/etc.

That is just my way overall outlook on SSD's, also I doubt someone would be trying to hd's if those work like said above and take off they could be cool to buy hd/games in this format. little keys instead of sratchable cds. member how much one big azz 512mb card was now they can crame 4gigs into a nano. just saying, SSD's not to be overlooked for big time future use. I'm rambling.

I'm talking atleast another 2 years but at the rate they're popping up in notebooks, wouldn't suprise me even a year costs is way down then i bet.. solid state should stay cooler too... that hd does some revolations...

no chance of data degradation on SSD unless it magically stops working or magically snaps in half lol.


I dream of fumdling a small SSD card out of my movie box than scratching a disc at night too, lol.


ps im gonna read up way more on solid state to compare the pros cons of each if price ever dropped low wnough where it became readable and i know the discs are easier cheaper to turn out in a press, but it'd be like bring the old school cartridges back too.. . mini GB-Uber mem game sticks
lol solid state.

I remember 10,000 rpm Cheetah Drives 4.5 GB were over $9,000 in the early 1990's. So in todays dollars this bleeding edge technology is cheap!

In 1989 a megabyte cost $53 now spin it at high speed to spend some bucks.
http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/winchest.html

i think this xmas i'm going to look into a 64 gig ssd for my laptop. it's currently a 60 gig 7200 which is nice but i would like to see how much longer it's going to extend my battery life.

yes, an almost 9 month old thread bump, i know.

it depends on which SSD you're looking at.
most have a much slower read/write speed the SATA but almost instant seek time.

intel has an SSD with a 25/10 read/write time lol, but there are faster drives available now.

check here for a newly released 64 gb flash drive by Corsair.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/01/c...going-for-199/