Win an Intel 330 Series 180GB SSD - Page 14  

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)?

 

No and yes - My work notebook has an SSD and I might consider one for my personal netbook

 

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

 

First reliability and 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)?

 

Every 2 to 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 if component price makes sens for building

 

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

 

Not very important, as there are trade ins

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

 

Not Canadian resident, but simply curious... Are Canadians thought to be like... too stupid or something? :-)

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 a Samsung. 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

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

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

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

 

     Answer : No but would like to purchase one. Any of the listed brands would be acceptable for a purchase.

 

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

 

    Answer: i guess a combination of the 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)?

 

    Answer: usually 3 to 4 years.

 

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

 

   Answer: Depending on whats available I will build it myself or get 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)

 

   Answer: I consider it pretty important.

 

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

 

   Answer: if using proper mathematical ordering of operations it would be 110 + 15/5 - 4 = 109 or if no ordering of operations is                       used it would be 21.  

1. Do you currently own an SSD?

No

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 that is reasonably priced.

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

In order : price, brand, compatibility..

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)?

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.

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

21 (just in case: 110+15/5-4 =109; (110+15)/5 - 4 = 21)

1. No actual plans to purchase one unless I have a sudden jump in expendable income.

2. Performance and reliability are most important for me.

3. I replace my notebook every 3-4 years, desktop not so much.

4. Branded. I built my own back when I had too much free time.

5. SSDs are extremely important system performance.

Thanks for contest!

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 own one and do not plan on purchasing one in the near future.

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)?  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)?  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)  not very 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)?
Picked up an OCZ Vertex 3 recently. Considered all of the above.

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

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, but I refresh hardware here and there in between purchases

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

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?
N/A

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 currently own a 256GB Crucial m4, and am considering purchasing a discount OCZ for a media center in my house.

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

Performance and price. I look for the best performing drive in my price range.

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

Whenever I can justify an upgrade, so about every 2 or 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 to build PCs, but have been purchasing laptops out of necessity.

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! My first upgrade made a night and dy difference in my system.

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 don't own but would seriously consider getting one with my next purchase.

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

Price, Brand.

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)?
 

Branded for laptops; Build your own for Desktop PC's.

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?
 

Answer: 21
 

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)?
no

no
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)?
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)?
build 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

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 own a SSD. Waiting on my next build to start looking for one. No idea which I will be looking at at that time

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

Price and warranty

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

Every 1~2 years I build a new PC.

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

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)

Never had one so I don't know. From what I have read and been told it is pretty important

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

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)?
- I do not own one now, and I am considering purchasing one, assuming I can afford to. Primarily I'm looking at OCZ at the moment, though Seagate's hybrids have my attention as well for certain uses.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?
- Primarily price, though write cycles before failure is always a concern. That alone is much of why I consider OCZ before others.

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, though I'm generally upgrading my computer sporadically through that time.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?
- With desktops, I always build my own. Laptops I rarely have that option with. Branded systems contain hardware not supported on my OS of choice far too often, among other reasons.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)
- It depends entirely on application. For a standard user, not very important. In the hands of someone who can or must tailor their uses, especially linux users, an SSD can be extremely effective when used alongside a standard HDD and potentially a ramdisk.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?
US resident, not relevant.

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)?
 

No/Maybe

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

 

Price/Size of Drive

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

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

 

Buy

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
 

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 would love to own a SSD for the sole reason of speed but its hard to justify the cost for speed alone when you have the luxury of size with a little slower drive. The moment i run out of space on my drive i wish i had gone with a 2 TB drive rather than save a couple of bucks and get a 1 TB drive. . Now if you use your SSD as your master drive and had your slower but larger drive as a slave thats how you could have the best of both worlds. Slower to copy to larger drives but performance would still be strong.

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

Price, Size, and MOST importantly reliability. Price, speed, size and brand mean nothing if its going to crash every 3 weeks. The bad thing about SSD drives is that their is not a ton of recoverability if there is an electronic failure so those components must be sound and reliable.

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

For Home Over 3 years but My work computer is upgraded 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)?

Performance wise i like to build my own but cost wise branded is better these days.

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 heavy days in my line of work but the general public they wouldn't notice the difference.

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

1) No, yes, not sure.

2) Performance, size.

3) 2-3 years, but I am upgrading components at least twice a year.

4) Both. Buy laptops, build my own HTPCs.

5) Very important.

6) N/A

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 currently own an SSD but would REALLY love one! I would consider any/all brands.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)? The most important consideration is a combination of price and performance, or bang for the buck. I would prefer to go with a name-brand product, Warranty is also a consideration in my shopping.

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)? Typically a branded system, but I would certainly consider a build-my-own in the future.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance). From what I've read, the SSD is a great way to increase system performance. Would love to try it ... I'll be happy to report back

Thanks for the chance to 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)?

No, maybe for my next pc.

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

Reliability first, 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)?

4-5 years (see below)

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

build my own desktop/server and buy my notebook

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

moderately important

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

I'll take the 5th

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 currently own an Intel series 320 SSD

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

Price, brand

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

4-5 years

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

i use a laptop, which has been a thinkpad for the last 10 years

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

pretty importland

thanks for letting me play

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 Vertex3

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

Performance, followed by price. Brands are not as important.

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

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)?

I 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)

Pretty important

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

Not Canadian