No cons buy solid state and don't debate
Couple of points, but really only people that have experience with SSDs should comment, the rest is conjecture (particularly if negative).
The standard mechanical hard drive in a modern computer is by far the biggest bottleneck.
Windows 7 automatically disables defrag on a SSD and TRIM prevents any degradation.
The power consumption is significantly lower so don't believe otherwise
Much less noise and heat.
Ensure you have a backup routine as if the MTBF is much lower than expected it should still be under warranty.
Firmware updates are available for most SSDs to overcome any initial problems.
all you did is just repeat what i said on page two.
It is not like it gives you leaps and bounds performance over your standard SATA2 drive doing every day usage type stuff.
where did you specifcally mention TRIM, Windows 7's handling of SSDs, warranties and back up routines? I didn't read your post as I normally find them of little interest. May be you will also find that your post is repetitive, however for a summary i included it all, plus the stuff that noone else mentioned, including you.
It is not like it gives you leaps and bounds performance over your standard SATA2 drive doing every day usage type stuff.
This is 100% correct. I don't think SSD is quite worth the price versus performance boost at the moment. It is not like it gives you leaps and bounds performance over your standard SATA2 drive doing every day usage type stuff.
I wrote-"no need for maintenance" = "Windows 7 automatically disables defrag on a SSD and TRIM prevents any degradation"
I wrote-"lower power consumption" = "The power consumption is significantly lower so don't believe otherwise"
I wrote-"no heat" = "Much less noise and heat"
I wrote-"silent" = "Much less noise and heat"
I wrote-"longer life span, more reliable and way faster and" = you wrote-nothing
you just wrote it differently, thats all. Maybe you should start reading post before you post your own, you might be just repeating what someone else said.
pro's-
Waaaay faster
longer life span
more reliable
no need for maintenance
lower power consumption
silent
no heat
con's-
people say price, but IMO...well worth it.
Doesn't their performance slowly degrade over time?
It's worth noting that although the performance rate of SSD's usually start off very high and and stay at a good range, there can be a percentage slide within the first 6 months of use. There are some other factors that play a role in the general usage of SSD's though that should at least be known. For example, SSD's to have a finite life cycle of only so many erase/write cycles.
With that in mind, fragmentation can exacerbate the problem to where the erase/write cycles can be increased where fragmentation is present. Despite that, frequent defragmentation of SSD's can invite a similar problem in reducing the life cycle further so there is a bit of a catch-22. I actually work as a Tech Support Rep for Diskeeper Corporation and they have some extensive information on SSD voulmes that cover information on performance and reliability metrics for these drive types. If you ever want, you can see some of our findings at: http://downloads.diskeeper.com/pdf/Optimizing-Solid-State-Storage-with-HyperFast-Technology.pdf