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General => Support & Help => Topic started by: hogs on February 29, 2012, 05:11:26 PM

Title: Is an SSD worth it?
Post by: hogs on February 29, 2012, 05:11:26 PM: I'm getting my new PC next week and I'm planning on getting a single-state drive, is it worth the $110AUD I'm going to pay for a 60GB SSD? I'll be installing the 64 bit Windows 7 operating system on the SSD to increase the boot time. Should I do it?

Also, my new PC specs can be found here (http://www.catalyst-gaming.net/index.php?topic=12034.msg89906#msg89906).
Title: Re: Is an SSD worth it?
Post by: wakeboarderCWB on February 29, 2012, 05:12:33 PM: If you're just booting Windows on it, then I'd go for it. They're still too expensive for regular storage, in my opinion.

Also, moved to Support and Help.
Title: Re: Is an SSD worth it?
Post by: Technical Abbreviations on February 29, 2012, 05:25:41 PM: Not particularly. Send you computer into hibernation instead of off, and you wont need to spend all that money for a boot drive, and any other uses... Well not really cost effective
Title: Re: Is an SSD worth it?
Post by: alaskan thunderfuck on February 29, 2012, 07:40:20 PM: If you've got the money it is really, really nice to have just make sure you go with something reliable like intel as I've gone through 3 or 4 of them
Title: Re: Is an SSD worth it?
Post by: hogs on March 01, 2012, 12:50:14 AM: Quote from: RoflWaffle on February 29, 2012, 07:40:20 PM
If you've got the money it is really, really nice to have just make sure you go with something reliable like intel as I've gone through 3 or 4 of them

Intel's stuff is overpriced as fuck.

Corsair Force SATA3 Series 60GB 2.5 SSD - $110.00
compared to
Intel 520 series 60GB SSD - $152.00

And I don't even think the 520 is SATA3.
Title: Re: Is an SSD worth it?
Post by: alaskan thunderfuck on March 01, 2012, 03:35:30 AM: I had a corsair force 3 which died on me in a couple of months, they've got really bad support which took 4 days to respond to me(never bothered sending it back, cba)
Title: Re: Is an SSD worth it?
Post by: hogs on March 01, 2012, 05:11:24 AM: Quote from: RoflWaffle on March 01, 2012, 03:35:30 AM
I had a corsair force 3 which died on me in a couple of months, they've got really bad support which took 4 days to respond to me(never bothered sending it back, cba)

I see. I'm assuming you're using an Intel SSD now? What type and how many gigabytes?
Title: Re: Is an SSD worth it?
Post by: alaskan thunderfuck on March 01, 2012, 05:22:56 AM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167050
It isn't as fast as the force 3 was when it actually worked, but windows boot up is only like 10 seconds and you generally can use programs right away without having to wait
Title: Re: Is an SSD worth it?
Post by: hogs on March 01, 2012, 05:44:54 AM: Quote from: RoflWaffle on March 01, 2012, 05:22:56 AM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167050
It isn't as fast as the force 3 was when it actually worked, but windows boot up is only like 10 seconds and you generally can use programs right away without having to wait

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with a life expectancy of 1.2 million hours mean time between failures

It looks good but it's $250AUD; a ridiculous price for a SATA2 SSD, plus they are out of stock of them at the store I'm buying them from. Have you used a Kingston SSD before? $90AUD for 60GBS (even though SATA2.5) which is what I'm after. What's your opinion on them?
http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=159&bid=5&sid=82554

Also I am on a budget for my PC which is why I don't want to pay so much for just an SSD. I'm over my budget by about $50 and I'm willing to go over to about $100-200AUD
Title: Re: Is an SSD worth it?
Post by: alaskan thunderfuck on March 01, 2012, 06:02:05 AM: I've actually never tried anything by kingston but I've only heard good so you should be fine
Title: Re: Is an SSD worth it?
Post by: hogs on March 01, 2012, 06:19:44 AM: All right, thanks for your help.