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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)?

Yes i own a Crucial M4 128gb 7mm. No, I dont plan on purchasing in the near future. I would consider Crucial.

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

Price

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

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

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)?
Yes - Intel 80GB M-25 G2. Also yes - Intel, Crucial, Samsung, Corsair, Mushkin)

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?
In order of importance: Reliability, Performance, Price.

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)?
Always 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)
Insanely important. Will never go back to mechanical hard drives.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?
Not a Canadian resident.

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 don't own one, but am considering one for my next build when the technology has improved reliability and sizes have increased to make SSD usable system drives. Crucial, Intel

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

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

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

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

N/A

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 not currently own any solid state drives at the moment but I am looking into picking up either an Intel or OCZ drive or two within the next year.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?
The most important consideration I make when purchasing any computer parts, including solid state drives, is performance. I will choose the one that gives me the most performance for my price range and I am willing to spend a little bit more money if it means getting a product that will give me better 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 usually have build projects that take me about a year or two to complete and then keep that for three to four years before I start another.

4. Do you prefer to build your own PC or buy a branded system (Build your own or Buy a branded system)?
I always prefer to build my own PC in order to get the most customization and performance for my money.

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)
An SSD is crucial to system performance when it comes to decreasing load times. Being an impatient person myself, any decrease in load times for the operating system and games that I can get is very important.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?
I am not Canadian.
Edited by mattyp - 6/18/12 at 11:32am

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 don't currently own one, almost bit the bullet a few times. From what I've looked at for brands, Intel, Samsung and Crucial seem to be the best value.


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

Definitely reliability. It doesn't matter how fast or cheap it is if it's not working.

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

I probably buy a NEW PC every 2 years. But I usually end up buying upgrades every few months to keep myself entertained.

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, there's no fun doing it another way.

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 pretty sure a SSD is very important for performance. My HDD seem to be the only thing limiting my system currently.

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

Upstate NY close but not technically Canada.

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 an SSD. I plan on continuing using SSDs in future builds. I am considering Intel, OCZ and Crucial.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD (price, performance, brand, other)?
Performance, stability, 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 build or purchase a new PC every 2-3 years, and upgrade current systems regularly.

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

5. How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? (extremely important, pretty important, Not very important, no impact on performance)
Depends on the tasks the computer will be performing. Gaming/benchmarking is VERY important to me on my rig. My wife facebooking and watching youtube is not worthy of SSD imo.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?
I R NOT CANADIAN.

1. I do not own any SDD at the moment, but I plan to buy 3 when I get the money and find the right price/performance units. I was considering Samsung, Intel, Crucial or Patriot, but I really have no preference right now.

2. Since my budget is very tight I consider price first, however I still like to see the performance. So a good SDD with good price/performance will
catch my attention.

3. I usually upgrade something in my computer like every half a year or a year if budget allows me.

4. I preffer to build my own computer and have been doing it for about 10 years now.

5. I did not think it was that important until I got a OCZ 60G Agility III at my work and I had to compare 2 old computers. One had a Sata II HDD
and the other one would have the SDD. Mainly we wanted to see how much improvement would the pc get upgrading the hard drive to an SDD.
These computers are used in a computer lab and have a very big image with a lot of programs installed so whenever a user logs in it takes like 3~ mins
for the user to log in after they enter their account and anoterh 2~ to even do anything after they are logged in. And still computer is still a bit slow. However,
when I did the comparison between the 2 systems the oen with the SDD logged in abotu 10-15 secs and it took like 5 secs more to be operational. Not only that,
but applications would open up much faster, too.

So now my boss will give our results to his boss and see if they upgrade the older computers with a SSD or spend 600+ and replace them with thin clients and use VMs. But
seeing how the schools budget is... the SDD is a great cheap option considering that 60GB is good enough for the lab image.

6. eh?

1. I currently have a SSD I ripped out of my dead second gen Macbook Air and am looking into getting a 256 crucial m4 for a gaming pc.

2. Price is the most important consideration but the SSd hast to not lack in performance and be of a reasonable size.

3. I get a new laptop ever 3 years a a new desktop every 2

4. Both I use multiple operating systems a like having a computer for each + a laptop ( mas for lap reports, surfing the web and some programming, linux for more involved programming of robots, and windows for games that don't work on mac/linux).

5. I would not get a computer with out one.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?
this question was poorly worded and the anser depends on wether you asume it is a series of steps of a if we should use the order of operations.

(110+15)/5-4=21
a=110;
a+=15;
a=a/5;
a-=4;
a=21

110+15/5-4=x
x=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)?
Don not own one. Yes planning on purchasing one from Crucial.

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

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

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 from what I have read.

6. [Canadian residents only] What is 110 plus 15 divided by 5 minus 4?
I'm not Canadian but, I'm guessing the answer has to do with mayo.
Edited by dwrune - 6/18/12 at 3:14pm

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 M4

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

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

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?

109