SSD Drives - Long term views

[Spacecadet]

So those of you who have been running an SSD as a primary drive in a laptop for the past year or two... how do you feel about it?

Drives are getting down to under £1 per gb and I'm getting sorely tempted!

[eek]

So those of you who have been running an SSD as a primary drive in a laptop for the past year or two... how do you feel about it?

Drives are getting down to under £1 per gb and I'm getting sorely tempted!

If you ever compile anything just go for it. The speed difference is remarkable.

But I do seem to care about backing everything up more. The amount of bad stories I've read does give you some paranoia which regular backups will calm.

[amcdonald]

I put mine in my gaming rig as it's windows disk, and with just a couple of decidely average cards in SLI, max out everything in COD and Battlefield

Boot up and shut down times are a lot less than the used to be even after heavy usage

Get one you won't regret it

[AtW]

Don't use as primary drive and even if you don't make sure you make regular backups.

[russell]

If you ever compile anything just go for it. The speed difference is remarkable.

But I do seem to care about backing everything up more. The amount of bad stories I've read does give you some paranoia which regular backups will calm.

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[doodab]

So those of you who have been running an SSD as a primary drive in a laptop for the past year or two... how do you feel about it?

Drives are getting down to under £1 per gb and I'm getting sorely tempted!

It's the best money I have spent on computer equipment in years.

The horror stories are just that, if you stick to the reliable brands (intel, samsung, micron/crucial) they are no less reliable than mechanical HDD, though crucial did have a well publicised firmware bug they released a fix for it quite quickly. Of course you should have a backup of anything important just the same as you would have for a spinning disk.

[Lockhouse]

Have one in my main workstation at home - highly recommended, super quick boot up times. Obviously backed up.

[amcdonald]

Don't use as primary drive and even if you don't make sure you make regular backups.

If you have secondary SATAvdrives with data on that's less of an issue

[Churchill]

I have a PC in the office with SSD, it's quick. Do I trust it? Nope.

However, my next purchase for my home PC is one of these...

Crucial UK Solid-State Drives - Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache

[cojak]

I have a PC in the office with SSD, it's quick. Do I trust it? Nope.

However, my next purchase for my home PC is one of these...

Crucial UK Solid-State Drives - Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache

Is it as resilent as an SSD? (I've had HD's die on me in laptops so I don't trust anything).