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You might want to hold off on those...uh....pencils for a month or two
It's been predicted by several sources that the SSD prices are going to drop in Q4 this year.
The release of the new 25nm G3 Intel SSDs are going to be in the next month or two.
For these two reasons I would wait for a while.
Last edited by Dave76; 26 Aug 2010 at 03:38.
i pointed it out because a few of us here have been having a friendly debate about which drive performs best "in the real world". it's not that I'm a Crucial fanboy. If/when new drives come out that out perform this one (noticeably outperform that is) then I'll get one no matter who makes it
But to perform at this speed you need SATA III interface?!
Of course, one always has to remember that the raw throughput numbers do not tell the whole story. When it comes to an OS drive, your random I/O scores count more than anything else. This is not to say that the Crucial isn't a great drive...it's fantastic...but benchmarks can be misleading.
I agree that they can be misleading but benchmarks are what people want to see (otherwise threads like this wouldn't exist)
I just upgraded my system drive to an SSD drive, and let me say that the word "upgrade" is almost not even the right word to use. The speeds are so insane that I've never experienced such a shift in performance before, not when I upgraded my CPU, or RAM, or anything. I haven't even done a benchmark (and won't be doing one as it's pointless and silly, unless you suspect problems and need to confirm that something isn't quite right), but other than that, read speeds and write speeds are both substantially faster. Loading Windows is faster, though it doesn't blow me away, but once I'm in Windows, it's like night and day from using an HDD as a system drive. From the moment I press the power button, to the moment Windows is ready is about 10-12 seconds. Shutting down, so, from the point of clicking on 'Shut down" to the the moment when the power light on my tower goes off is about 2-4 seconds. I timed them both btw, but instead of giving the average, I gave the min and max times. Impressive. I can click on anything, within seconds of Windows starting, and there's no delay. Windows having to "warm up" is a thing of the past. Installing small to medium programs are so fast that I swear sometimes I don't even see that installation progress screen. It just goes from the installation confirmation screen to the "installation completed" screen. I thought something was wrong actually, but to my joy I realized that's just the nature of SSD performance. Games, Office 2010, etc install fast also. :)