Solid State Drive Question

[SwampdonkeyPLD]

So I'm looking at a new computer and one of the options is a solid state drive. Are those worth the extra money? Might be a dumb question but oh well.

[Solefald]

Only if it's an Intel drive, or one with an Indilinx controller. Anything based on a Samsung or Jmicron controller is going to suck.

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[SwampdonkeyPLD]

Thanks.

[Ratatapa]

Personnaly i don't recommand SSD for hardcore yet because afaik there arn'T alot with high capacity and they are pretty pricy.

But if you have money you can alwasy do this get a SSD to install windows from and get a normal HDD to put the data in

[Blabj]

Personally I wouldn't be too bothered about an SSD. It all depends on what you want to use your computer for.

[Amastacia]

If you're having the computer built by someone like Alienware, the answer is most definitely no.

To be honest, even with the Indilinx drives getting better, I wouldn't spend my money on anything but an X-25M, and those are NOT the drives being used by custom system builders (at least, no one that I know of uses them).

They're going to charge you an absolutely absurd premium, and you're not getting remotely close to your money's worth.

[mootsfox]

No. Unless you want to pay $2-5/GB.

Good HDD's are down to about $0.08/GB, and are about 1/2 the raw transfer speed, and a lot slower in random access.

HDDs = cheap, fast enough for you. If not, RAID them.

SSDs = faster, excellent random access, expensive