Intel X25-V 40GB 2.5" SSD Solid State Drive for $109.99 Shipped After Rebate

I always wanted one of these.. Hmmm maybe if I can SELL that free PEN...!
 
i still do not feel that the small increase in speed outways the harder recovery and fragile nature of the drives not to mention the price is much higher for much less space...my music collection is 43gb alone....stick with a normal hard drive and just make sure it has at least 8mb cache
 
Mortiki said:
i still do not feel that the small increase in speed outways the harder recovery and fragile nature of the drives not to mention the price is much higher for much less space...my music collection is 43gb alone....stick with a normal hard drive and just make sure it has at least 8mb cache
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SSD's are not intended to be used as storage devices. They are merely intended to make your computer access files quickly and efficiently. Simply install your OS to this bad boy and enjoy the increase in speed!
 
Mortiki said:
i still do not feel that the small increase in speed outways the harder recovery and fragile nature of the drives not to mention the price is much higher for much less space...my music collection is 43gb alone....stick with a normal hard drive and just make sure it has at least 8mb cache
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small increase? the read rate on this is over 2x a WD 1TB Black. the write rate is a bit slow though, but that's why you use it for an OS drive. also, your mp3 collection is quite small, better work on that
 
Mortiki said:
i still do not feel that the small increase in speed outways the harder recovery and fragile nature of the drives not to mention the price is much higher for much less space...my music collection is 43gb alone....stick with a normal hard drive and just make sure it has at least 8mb cache
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Have you tried an SSD yet? I bought the 80 gig Dane-Elec (Intel XM-18) and it is so much faster than the 500 gig Seagate SATA drive I was using for the OS that I'm still in shock weeks later. Everything about the OS and my desktop apps is faster, WAY faster. When I sat down to check the nightly deals I launched Chrome, Firefox, and Steam all at the same time (within a split second) and they all just appeared (Steam had to finish the login process but it started instantly). No delays, no stepping on each other's toes, no messyness, they were just there.

As mentioned pac, you don't use it as a storage drive, the cost per gig is no where near what you should be spending to store data. You install Win7, browsers, and other desktop apps that you use on a regular basis. Your games, media, etc go on a big/cheap drive that will handle them better.

And 43 gig of mp3s? Don't start throwing size numbers around until you go over a terabyte.
 
I would say to ignore the post

THe person obviously has no idea what he/she was babbling. The poster stated "the fragile nature of SSD". We all know that SSD is a lot less fragile than a hard drive.
"The difficulty of recovery"? The poster has the opposite of the fact. Oh well. You can't change what people believe in even if it is the complete opposite to the truth and scientific fact.
 
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