Right its been a few years since i have been in the gaming pc market and i have being doing some research for a new build in December as a xmas present for myself, one thing that is getting to me is these silly solid state drive things. I have figured out these things are lighting quick in such i can turn on my pc and in the time it takes me to slap the mrs on the arse to get me a cup of tea my PC should have booted.... However as they are new they seem quite expensive per GB they can store. No point answering "get one dude they are really quick etc etc" that part i have figured out reading the forums.....my point is alaying to the fact is should i invest in one or stick to a H/drive? Now i am not a in-patient person i can wait for load times, hell i remember the days of 386s with 4 mb of ram was the cream of the crop so my question is to those who have/dont have them is do i need to get a SSD for my new build for any other reason aside from speed or will i not notice the difference if i get a modern H/Drive, bear in mind my last gaming PC had a hard drive likely 200 gb max at 3200rpm 16mb cache if i was lucky and todays hard drives seem to be super quick compared to back 5 years ago when i last had a gaming PC (died a overheating death by the way) Do i need to go to the expensive of a SSD or could i get away as i am used to it with a cheaper H/drive till at least the SSDs became more cost effective?
Sure you can. SSD is still considered a luxury item, more or less. But once you try it, you don't want to live without one. Trust me.
That i believe from what i have read about them...but i guess i will play on the "what i dont wont hurt me" concept and be amazed at the speed of todays H/Drives instead till at least this time next year when i hope they will be better priced.
It depends on how much you are going to spend. Eg if you are going to spend 600-700 pounds on your system an SSD will not be worth it as money can be spent else where. Where as if you were spending 1500 pounds or more then an SSD is worth it. Look at getting a 1TB Samsung F3 or western Digital 1TB along with a 64 Gig SSD to be used as a boot drive. Alternatively you could wait till Intel release there new NAND chips which should drive NAND prices down.
1) People only get an SSD when they have a higher than average budget because of how much they cost. 2) When people get an SSD it's almost always NOT for storage. People will get a small SSD (64GB and under) and just put their os and a couple games on it. They'll then get a second HDD (mechanical) that's got a good 1-1.5TB on it to store junks like movies and music. 3) If you don't use Windows 7 with your SSD there may be some problems with the lifespan of the drive. Windows 7 uses a technology called TRIM which is a part of the operating system that slightly changes the way data is stored and overwritten in an SSD so that it's lifespan is increased. Basically the problem is that with SSDs, the incredible read/write speed starts to slow down as a few years goes by. Here's an article with more information about TRIM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM Also look at this for information about wear leveling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling
Spot on. For gamers it is solely a budget consideration. For some uses you really do benefit from the speed - and some people make money from that speed up. For gamers it is luxury and you should have everything else you want before you start to think about getting an SSD. Personally I think that it will be worthwhile waiting for 25nm NAND.
Yeah if you're a bit budget concered (but still got the money) it'll be worth it to wait early next year.
Thanks for the answers, i have the money but unless there is a huge advantage to gaming/running games from the SDD i do not see the rush as the extra speed it seems will not benefit at this point, i will wait to see what has happened this time next year and stick with a good old 1TB H/D
Unless your playing high hard drive access games, basically modern mmos which are always loading, you will notice 0fps diffrence and 10-15 seconds load time did on an avr game. And if you don't have i930 920 or above there's better ways to spend the money when building a new system. Even if you go 860 system (1156 platform) you can upgrade to the next for under £150
