My first solid state.

Ok,the truth is that i order the ssd for speed.
But which are the really benefits of it?
My everyday pc use is:
Internet browsing,HD movies,Gaming,Downloading,scanning with esetss/mbam/superant

ignatzatsonic said:

The only clearcut advantage is in boot speeds as far as I can tell. From 47 seconds down to 31 seconds. Whoopee.

My boot times went from about 40 seconds down to 16. And I see big differences in virus scans as well as malwarebyte scans.

ignatzatsonic said:

My SSD has Windows and all my apps. I don't notice that programs or files open any quicker. Excel opens nearly instantaneously, but it did so before the SSD.

My fast opening apps like Office, stayed about the same. However, things like games went from loading in 15-20 seconds down to 3-4. It's a very noticeable difference there. My video editing application, Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD opens much faster with my SSD than it did on my standard spinner drive.

I don't consider SSD's a requirement. In fact, i only have 1 computer with an SSD and don't have plans to upgrade the others.

ignatzatsonic said:

PParks:

Have you noticed any faster opening of Photoshop?? I have not. I just checked---CS3 takes 10 seconds to open, about what it took on a spinning drive.

I'm to poor to afford photoshop. Honestly, I don't need photoshop and I don't pirate software, so photoshop is something that I don't use.

ignatzatsonic said:

Is that 16 seconds boot as measured by the Visual Basic script found on this site--or through another program's measurement?

It's a stopwatch timing. From the point that my BIOS hands off to Windows, and the screen goes black and says Starting Windows to my desktop is 16 seconds with a stopwatch. I think Bootracer claimed about 14 seconds if memory serves correctly.

ignatzatsonic said:

I'm underwhelmed by SSDs, but did not expect to be overwhelmed. Overall, neutral. I won't buy another until 1 TB sizes fall to where 80 GB sizes are now. I expect to reuse my current 80 GB for foreseeable future builds--5 to 10 years.

I've seen quite a number of people here who claim they will never touch another computer that doesn't have an SSD again. I don't feel that way. In fact, my work computers all have spinners (WD Caviar Blue's) and I don't feel they are slow in any way, nor do they have to be any faster.

My boss actually sent me a link today and said, "hey, if I can get our team approval for this, which SSD drive of these do you want?". But all of the drives were 80GB and with my laptop I dual boot Windows and Ubuntu and I have about 90GB of stuff on my C drive because of VM's and the like. So, my opinion was that I probably would just stick with my 160GB spinner drive rather than try to survive on an 80GB SSD. The performance difference just isn't worth the lack of space on my laptop.

But for my home computer, where I have an SSD and a 1TB spinner, I'm glad I bought the SSD and don't regret it in any way. That machine always feels faster when i sit down and use it.

I would expect photoshop to be more like this;


Or like this;