Win an Intel 330 Series 180GB SSD  

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Here we go!

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?
Yes, I own an OCZ. I will consider all of the above brands

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)? Performance, then brand, then price

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)? Upgrades every 1-2 years

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)? Always build my own

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance) Extremely important - even better performance than my Raptor drives

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4? Not Canadian.

Now we are talking - Good luck VMD_Bytor

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1) no, i do not currently own an SSD. Im considering all brands atm, but intel and OCZ stick out at me (best reviews that i can find online).

2) price.

3) over 3 years. i tend to overbuild systems so theyll last longer than most store bought systems.

4) build my own so i know exactly what im getting and am not restricted by mfrg settings.

5) extremely. a lot of the bottlenecking im getting nowadays is from the 7200 rpm drive im using. i was considering getting a 10k drive, but the WME scores are not very much higher with 10k drives.

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?

I do not have one, but seriously considered it. Intel Samsung, OCZ, Crucial, and Kingston are among some I've checked out and likely would consider.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?

Price first and reliability next.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?

Average, every 3 years.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?

Both, generally end up with a packaged system.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)

I think it is an important element of the performance baseline.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?

Have one in my desktop, one in my MBP. OWC 6G SSD in the desktop and a OCZ Agility 3 in the MBP. Will need another one for the MicroATX rig I'm building! OCZ Agility 4 looked interesting, but I am definitely looking for bang for buck.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?

Size, Price, Performance. In that order.


3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?

About 1-2 years is roughly my turn around on PCs.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?

Build for sure!

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)

Having an SSD in a system is now a requirement for me. They've reached a $/GB point that the performance increase is definitely worth the sacrifice in storage space. Jam a traditional magnetic storage disk in the machine (if possible) for additional storage and rock out!

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?
Yes, own Intel X25-M and Samsung SLC.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?
Realiability, price, performance.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?
3+ years

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?
Purchase laptops; build PC's or server.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)
Extremely important for primary computers

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?
Not applicable.

Thanks.

1. I currently own one in my notebook but wanted to buy one for my desktop computer. I was going to buy an intel bran.

 

2. My biggest consideration is definitely bang for my buck. I want good write/read speeds for the right amount of money.

3. Less than a year

4. I prefer to build.

5. The disk is definitely an important part of my pc. I am still running hdd and it is holding back my system.

6. I'm in the USA
 

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?

I own several OCZ models and have not contemplated buying more in the near future.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?

Performance based on reviews.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?

Probably over three years as I only purchase laptops.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?

I build all my desktop systems.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)

Pretty important, depending on application.

Hope I win...

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?
Don't currently own one, but have been looking at OCZ brand.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?
Something that offers decent performance at a great price.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?
Every 2-3 years

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?
I prefer building my own.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)
Pretty important

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?
Not Canadian, but is the answer 109?

Hope that answer doesn't disqualify me.

1. Do you currently own an SSD?
Yes.
Are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?
Yes ... any brand of reasonably priced 1.8" SSD .... currently there are NONE!

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?
In order : price, brand, reliability, toolbox, reputation ... and last is performance.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?
Over 5 years.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?
I don't build laptops.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)
Extremely important.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?
USA

18 hours since the announcement ... here we go

cheers ...

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?

1. intel x25-m g2 80gb. open to future brands
2. performance
3. over 3 years (gradual upgrades)
4. build
5. extremely important

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?

Not yet, but when I build my next computer I'm definitely planning on installing one. I'm not sure which brand I'll go with, but I've heard good things about Intel SSDs.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?

Performance:Price ratio and reliability.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?

Over 3 years, generally.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?

Build it.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)

Very important.

1. Do not currently own an SSD, but have been thinking about buying one in the coming year. Would buy an Intel.

2. Reliability, price, performance

3. Over 3 years

4. Buy a branded laptop (desktop replacement)

5. Pretty important

6. NA

1.  Yes, and Intel, a Crucial, and an OCZ.  Near future purchase:  Patriot or Samsung.

2.  Price and performance as well as warranty.  Brand is important in that reputation of products and customer service are very important.

3.  Every 1-2 years.

4.  I build my PCs, buy branded laptops.

5.  Pretty important, it certainly is one of the major factors in system performance.

6.  I refuse to answer this unless it is asked in French ;)
 

1. No. Am seriously considering between intel and samsung
2. Performance/Price
3. 2-3 years
4. Buy a branded system
5. extremely important
6. Not Canadian

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?

 - Running an Intel SSDSA2BW160G3H in my swanky new HP dv6t-7000

 - Looking to purchase a Crucial for a DVD bay, but I'll happily accept another Intel! =)

 

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?

 - Performance

 

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?

 - Every 2-3 years

 

 

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?

 - Build for the desktop, buy for the laptop

 

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)

 - Extremely important

 

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?

 - San Francisco, CA =) However, by Order of Ops, that's 109...right? ;)

Edited by Dionys - 6/15/12 at 12:42pm

1. I don't own one
2. Price
3. I like to buy branded systems, there is a wide range of configurations available.
4. I think the performance is extremely important.


Thank for the opportunity