wonderboy1953
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Maybe more to the point, how much do they cost and how much can they hold if I can get one at a store?
Are SSD drives expensive?
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FuryRosewood
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for a cheap one, in a bustbuy...will cost you about 120 for a 64 gig kingston ssd. honestly id look at newegg for better pricing on slightly larger drives. a 120 gig one will cost about 200 bucks
wonderboy1953
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They're still quite expensive for the capacity you get but you can find some good deals on certain models,Such as a recent deal on the OCZ Agility 3 60GB over here in the UK for £101.
With rated speeds of= Read: 525MB/sec,Write: 475MB/sec thats one hell of a deal imo and well worth it.
If your in the US places like Newegg,Bestbuy,amazon etc sell them.
With rated speeds of= Read: 525MB/sec,Write: 475MB/sec thats one hell of a deal imo and well worth it.
If your in the US places like Newegg,Bestbuy,amazon etc sell them.
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FuryRosewood
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bustbuy...radiosuck...radioshaft....jokes yes
wonderboy1953
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Bringing back a memory
Just a few years ago, you could have bought a 500GB for $500. Now you can get a UBS 3.0 three terabyte external HDD for $200.
Just a few years ago, you could have bought a 500GB for $500. Now you can get a UBS 3.0 three terabyte external HDD for $200.
2048Megabytes
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Wow! Computers used to be so expensive. The price has really come down on parts. With inflation calculated (I looked it up) you spent $1,045 on a 20 megabyte hard drive in today's U.S. dollars.
My last 320 gigabyte SAMSUNG Spinpoint hard drive cost me $50. That would be $24 back in 1985.
strollin
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Definitely! For the longest time a new computer cost $2000. As things progressed you got more and more computing power for the same price but you still needed to spend $2000. Finally, prices started coming down, hovered at the $1500 mark then slowly crept down from there. I remember what a big deal it was when the price of a new, low-end computer broke the $1000 barrier.
Over the years, computer components (actually all electronic products) have continually improved in power, capacity, reliability, etc... while at the same time going down in price.
As the acceptance of SSDs grows, the price will come down and the capacity, speed and reliability will go up. I can't predict how soon it will happen but some day in the near future SSDs will be the norm instead of the exception. The HDD will go the way of the floppy drive.
claptonman
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The cheapest SSD on newegg above 500GB is a 512GB for $850. You must have a nice job.
I have a 32GB that cost me about $75, and I use it for boot only. I love the little guy. So Fast.
strollin
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Don't know what you consider expensive or which SSD you have but here's a 460G SSD for $1,200: OCZ Colossus 2 Series OCZSSD3-2CLS460G 3.5" 460GB . That's pretty expensive when a WD Caviar Black 500G HDD can be had for around $60.
wonderboy1953
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Forgot to ask this question (US)
Are SSD writable disks much more expensive than HDD disks?
Are SSD writable disks much more expensive than HDD disks?
strollin
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AFAIK all SSDs are writable so you're asking the same question that started this thread.
wonderboy1953
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Nr
My question now pertains to blank disks that one would buy to burn files on, not the drive itself.
My question now pertains to blank disks that one would buy to burn files on, not the drive itself.
Twist86
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Yeah RAID0 8 of them and you will get better speeds and more storage, the downside is you wont get the seek times of a SSD.
Id love a SSD more once they hit $1 per GB, 120GB HDD for $120 (specially a Intel) would get me to buy one. While I like the load speeds they really don't do much other than that so spending $240+ on a 120GB+ drive is not worth it to me. Plus they are a new tech so who knows what possible problems could be in store for the users. I think 1-2 more shrinks and they should be able to give us a $1 per GB drive but that will be 1-2 years away. This also depends on if the US doesn't crash
tech savvy
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Yeah RAID0 8 of them and you will get better speeds and more storage, the downside is you wont get the seek times of a SSD.
Id love a SSD more once they hit $1 per GB, 120GB HDD for $120 (specially a Intel) would get me to buy one. While I like the load speeds they really don't do much other than that so spending $240+ on a 120GB+ drive is not worth it to me. Plus they are a new tech so who knows what possible problems could be in store for the users. I think 1-2 more shrinks and they should be able to give us a $1 per GB drive but that will be 1-2 years away. This also depends on if the US doesn't crash
Flash-based SSDs has been available since 1995, and was made by M-Systems.
wonderboy1953
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As far as the disks goes
Checked with a Best Buy rep who says you can use what's already on the shelves (CD and DVD) to backup with so that means there's no difference in cost.
Checked with a Best Buy rep who says you can use what's already on the shelves (CD and DVD) to backup with so that means there's no difference in cost.