Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: 33Vortex on November 27, 2008, 08:58:50 AM
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So is the price the only backside of SSDs? Tempted to buy one, the capacity is going up on SSDs and they look like a good option (though admittedly pricey) for a high-speed system.
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The technology is spotty in my opinion. I had to return the first drives I bought and switch brands from Patriot to G.Skill. The Patriots worked great but after a little time slowed down to a snails pace (they claim a Vista problem) but the G.Skill drives dont seem to have that problem. I started off with a RAID setup for capacity and ended up with a drive for the OS a drive for FSX (nearly 70 GB by itself) a RAID for 'other programs and data' and standard hard drives for backups. Boot times are faster but not instantaneous and most other programs start and run better. I would have to say the benefits of SSDs are more hype then reality but the technology is still emerging and improving.
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If you check with the benchmarking sites your better off with a western digital v raptor over the current SSD's out there. The cost per GB is almost 3 (lest expensive) times that or a raptor and near (notice I said near) the same performance. Maybe in 12 or 18 months it will be worth the investment. A high end high performance SSD is about 7 to 12 dollars per GB. Boutique systems started using these at first and have gone back to V Raptors.