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1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?

No i currently don't own one. Yes im planning on purchasing one, im considering Intel.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?

Performance.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?

2-3 years.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?

Prefer to build my own.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance

I feel it's pretty important.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?

U.S resident.
Edited by Qiyamata - 6/17/12 at 4:04pm

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1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other
No, I do not currently own one. I did but gave it away to a friend as it was better suited for him at the time. And yes, I'm always considering buting a new one ( when not tight on money ). As for brands, definitely Crucial or Intel, as they normally have the better reviews.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?
Reviews first, nothing else matters if the majority of reviews say the thing dies in a short period of time. Then a balance of price/performance.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?
2-3

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?
Build my own.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)
Extremely important

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?
U.S. Here.

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?
I do! An OCZ Vertex 3 (60gb). I've been considering buying another for a while now, but I haven't really done much research so as of yet I haven't chosen a brand. I am partial to Intel, OCZ, and Corsair however. Sadly I've been hearing OCZ has reliability issues so I am not so sure I will be going with them again.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?
Price/gb is probably the single most important thing. An SSD should also be fast (500 read?) but I don't care if it's the absolute fastest thing there is. would like to think brand makes no difference.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?
I am currently and college and so I don' have a lot of cash to through around. I have only had 2 computers in my entire life: a dell my family got me in 2005 and my "new" self built computer I purchased in December of 11.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?
After building my own I will never buy a pc. Though now that I think about it I never have (my first was a gift.)

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)
When I first started researching building my own computer I read article after article stating that the SSD is a crucial but often overlooked component, and I swore I would put one in my system. So extremely important.

To get past some gambling laws, I think.

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?

I'm considering buying one but I'm not too sure which brand to buy, probably Intel, OCZ or Kingston.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?

A combination of performance and price.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?

I replace some parts of my computer, on average I'll have changed all the parts by 1-2 years.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?

Definitely build my own.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)

I'm not sure because I don't own one, but I've heard they do a lot to boot times and launching programs that you might put on there, so I'd say pretty important.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?

I own a crucial 64GB HHD that I use as my primary and I also own a 500GB Maxtor Hybrid SSD that is my main drive in my macbook pro.

I plan on buying a new one next generation. I am especially looking at a PCIE drive but who ever has the absolute highest speed ~128GB drive or 256 if affordable or much much faster than a 128 is what I will buy

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?
Performance



3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?
I have not purchased a new desktop in over 10 yrs. I keep 2 desktop computers going and as I buy new bleeding edge middle end technology I transfer it into my main rig and the old part goes into my secondary rig. I buy a new laptop every 2-3 YRS. However because of a need for a MAC I did buy a Macbook in 2010 and a i7 DV7 in 2011.


4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?
I prefer to build my own. However when building/consulting a computer for family or friends I may decide on a BRAND PC if once the OS License is considered it seems to be a better price. You can often get a PC at or below cost from fry's or other sources as they will often have 1-3 desktops and 1-5 laptops at cost to get you in and try to switch you to a profitable one or atleast sell you accessories.


5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)
Pretty to extremely for a power user not very to no impact for casual users. For myself I find it to be extremely important!

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?

Yes I own an Intel 520, 510, and 320 SSD.

I might buy a 330 to use on a second system.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?

Performance and long term reliability.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?

2-3 years.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?

Build my own whenever possible.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)

Extremely important. A non-SSD system feels incomplete and sluggish.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?

109

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?

Yes i own afew i like Sandisk SSD for the speed customer service and being well built

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?

Performance to price ratio

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?

I upgrade 1-2 years

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?

I have always built my own

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)

A SSD is extremely important to system performance

1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot Memory, Samsung, or other)?
-I'm ordering one in a few hours from this post. Mushkin Enhanced is the brand.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?
-Performance, pricing is also an important consideration but quality/performance takes higher priority.

3. How often do you purchase a new PC (less than a 1 year, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, over 3 years)?
2-3 years.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?
-Building all the way! Lots of fun and a great feeling at the end of a build, always.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)
-Pretty important. While they're not required they definitely makes things seem a lot smoother. From booting up to windows to games loading, it's all nicer with an SSD.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?
-American.