Is now the right time to buy a SSD?

Gareth · 10-30-2008, 07:31 AM

Hey all, I am wanting a 128GB SSD for my laptop, and I see that they're starting to become quite cheap, the model I want its only $450. I am wondering whether its a good time to buy an SSD or will they drop even more in price in the next couple of months?

2048Megabytes · 10-30-2008, 07:40 PM

Only $450, are you joking? That price is way too high for a Solid State Disk. Wait about 4 to 6 months. The price may be half of that by then. There may even be some great deals that come out in December before Christmas.

AUTOBOOT2000 · 10-31-2008, 12:53 AM

No SSD will not be realistic until 4 more years. I would just buy a terabyte harddrive for a fraction of the price and use masking tape to tape it to the bottom of my laptop.

Klue22 · 11-03-2008, 12:13 AM

the cheap SSD are really bad at performance, and the high performance ones require you to donate a kidney. just google it for tons of information. two velocirapters in raid 0 are faster than any ssd. And two 15k drives in raid 0 would make your SSD look like a floppy, of course this isnt practical for a laptop, although if you are a speed freak and dont care about battery usage, newegg does have some laptops with two 7200 rpm drives that are in raid 0

10-30-2008, 07:31 AM	#1 (permalink)
Gareth Diamond Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cambridgeshire, England Age: 19 Posts: 1,801	Is now the right time to buy a SSD? Hey all, I am wanting a 128GB SSD for my laptop, and I see that they're starting to become quite cheap, the model I want its only $450. I am wondering whether its a good time to buy an SSD or will they drop even more in price in the next couple of months? __________________ Gareth's Desktop Computer - *All parts are from Newegg in the United States!* *Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 3.20GHz* 8GB DDR2 PC8500 RAM 750GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 RAID 0 Striped Powercolor Radeon HD4870 1GB Windows 7 Professional x64 Hiper 730W ATX 2.0 PSU NZXT Silence Whisper Case 22" Widescreen 1680x1050 + 19" Widescreen 1440x900

10-30-2008, 07:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
2048Megabytes Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Mainland United States Posts: 2,291	Only $450, are you joking? That price is way too high for a Solid State Disk. Wait about 4 to 6 months. The price may be half of that by then. There may even be some great deals that come out in December before Christmas. __________________ "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." -- Benjamin Franklin Operating Systems: Linux Ubuntu 9.04 and Windows Vista Power Supply: OCZ StealthXStream OCZ600SXS Video Card: MSI R3650-T2D512 OC Radeon HD 3650 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M78SM-S2H Memory: Super Talent PC2-6400 2 gigabytes Processor: Phenom 9550 Quad-Core (2.2 gigahertz)

10-31-2008, 12:53 AM	#3 (permalink)
AUTOBOOT2000 Gold Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 378	No SSD will not be realistic until 4 more years. I would just buy a terabyte harddrive for a fraction of the price and use masking tape to tape it to the bottom of my laptop. __________________ Desktop: 23" 1024768/ XP PRO/ Pentium4 3.1GHZ/ ATI X800GT/ 2 512mb ram(1GB ram) Laptop: 17" 19201200/ Vista Basic/ Core 2 Duo 2.33(Overclocked to 2.66GHZ)/ ATI Mobility x1800 256mb/ 2*2046mb ram(4G ram)

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11-03-2008, 12:13 AM	#4 (permalink)
Klue22 Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 62	the cheap SSD are really bad at performance, and the high performance ones require you to donate a kidney. just google it for tons of information. two velocirapters in raid 0 are faster than any ssd. And two 15k drives in raid 0 would make your SSD look like a floppy, of course this isnt practical for a laptop, although if you are a speed freak and dont care about battery usage, newegg does have some laptops with two 7200 rpm drives that are in raid 0