Windows 7: SSD's-Are they really worth it?

I'm with you on this one. For me, storage, CPU, and peripherals trump load times. I personally spend the money on a better graphics card, extra monitor, dock for the XT2, etc etc.

I believe you would only be limited by the NTFS. It is recommended that a drive formatted NTFS not be over 75% to 80% full. So you would be good, by far, at 40% or more.

The drives are a huge improvement over the spinning disk, no doubt.

In the future, the systems you could buy in the big box store will all come with SSD's. The price will come down as the drives become more common, manufacturing scales up, and competition ramps up. You can pay more to be there now, or wait and be there for less.

"It hurts on the bleeding edge of technology!"

Once you have one and use one you'll never look back I have a dual boot Rig, Win 7 on the SSD and Win XP Pro on my Seagate 1TB. After spending all day on my XP scanning photos ( No driver for my scanner for Win 7 64 ) I was so glad to get back to my Win 7 and the SSD to edit them in Photo Shop. I am always amazed at the speed of it Just my pennies worth.


Steve

"Worth it" is very subjective, but for my two cents... yes.

I have a RAID 0 SSD setup on my Windows 7 machine and a single SSD on my Vista machine. In my opinion, I see better performance in my Vista machine: Operating System load, application load & overall system responsiveness. That's not to say that my setup on my Windows 7 machine is not worth it, though. It's just that I really see it on the Vista machine.

+ 1. On a limited budget, there are other things I can do that are much more cost effective. I would much rather invest in extra storage.

Where are the SSDs with SATA III (6GB/sec) ..
or would that help any in a newer Mobo ??

ok thanks guys, i guess its a bit like going form a prentium 4 to a quad core. Looks like i will be getting the intel one then and using the 640WD for storage (music,vids docs etc.)

so how does this trim work then? does it come with the firmware?

Great point! The aforementioned enthusiast, while she or he may consider an SSD, is likely to pour hard-earned dinero into just those things mentioned by Surfasb. If one still has change left over after all of the other essential purchases, they probably drive to work in a Bentley and, as such, the cost/benefit ratio is a moot question.

Monk

i guess it's what you really want from your pc, i dont play to many pc games, mainly modern warfare 2 and LFD2 so my gpu is ok for that, allready have a quad core, monitor is fine. I think the last step for me would be a SSD, plus i am really fussy when it comes to load up times. os and aps. Dont ask why im just a bit wired like that Some people it won't bother but to me it does.

also looking at that article it states that ssd's get slower over time? has this now bwwn fixed?