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6/22/12 at 10:52pm
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Hard drive prices refuse to budge after last year's floods that struck manufacturing facilities in Thailand, even as manufacturers turn record profit. The solid-state drive market, on the other hand, is finally rolling with competition, high volume production, and advancements in NAND flash technologies. With memory majors such as Hynix adding new NAND flash manufacturing facilities to their infrastructure, SSD is expected to finally get its big break in the mainstream market.

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6/22/12 at 10:54pm
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About time. This way we can all get two cheap and run them in raid.

Prices have been way too high way too long.
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6/22/12 at 11:01pm
You guys should learn what it means to have premium product which is like 10x more beneficial then any other part of your pc.

How is 150$ for 120GB expensive and GPU from 350/500$ good price, you get benefits from that GPU only in games, but with the SSD the gains are perma. so please stop to compare SSD's with HDDs = GB vs GB, how about comparing the performance of both, then form a real price? you say they should offer more space? i say bring me 120GB HDD which perform similar to 120GB SSD then we can talk.

If you need space, get HDD and one 120GB SSD, and stop whine about space limitation or price, the price is amazing like almost 1 year, if you actually take the performance gains into account compared with other components with similar price. SSD'ss are premium products which offer amazing price/ performance ratio, i dont get this nonsense talk about price being high really!
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6/22/12 at 11:03pm
I paid $140 for my 128GB Plextor M3 just a month or two ago, and I wish I had waited frown.gif

Oh well, at least 512GB SSDs will be cheap by Black Friday of this year.
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6/22/12 at 11:16pm
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You guys should learn what it means to have premium product which is like 10x more beneficial then any other part of your pc.
How is 150$ for 120GB expensive and GPU from 350/500$ good price, you get benefits from that GPU only in games, but with the SSD the gains are perma. so please stop to compare SSD's with HDDs = GB vs GB, how about comparing the performance of both, then form a real price? you say they should offer more space? i say bring me 120GB HDD which perform similar to 120GB SSD then we can talk.
If you need space, get HDD and one 120GB SSD, and stop whine about space limitation or price, the price is amazing like almost 1 year, if you actually take the performance gains into account compared with other components with similar price. SSD'ss are premium products which offer amazing price/ performance ratio, i dont get this nonsense talk about price being high really!

Agreed, until I built my new computer I used a pretty standard HDD and thought SSDs were a ripoff because of the low amount of storage they offered. I managed to get a good deal on all the parts for my PC so an SSD wasn't a big hit on the budget and so I decided to get one. i could never go back to an HDD. Everything about my PC is instantaneous now. I keep the games i play on the SSD and backup the ones I don't play on my HDD and just switch them around. It works perfectly fine and the games run with no loading screens ever.
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6/22/12 at 11:23pm
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You guys should learn what it means to have premium product which is like 10x more beneficial then any other part of your pc.
How is 150$ for 120GB expensive and GPU from 350/500$ good price, you get benefits from that GPU only in games, but with the SSD the gains are perma. so please stop to compare SSD's with HDDs = GB vs GB, how about comparing the performance of both, then form a real price? you say they should offer more space? i say bring me 120GB HDD which perform similar to 120GB SSD then we can talk.
If you need space, get HDD and one 120GB SSD, and stop whine about space limitation or price, the price is amazing like almost 1 year, if you actually take the performance gains into account compared with other components with similar price. SSD'ss are premium products which offer amazing price/ performance ratio, i dont get this nonsense talk about price being high really!

We try but no one listens. sadsmiley.gif

I hate it when I hear, "But I won't have enough space for all of my {blank} games or music/videos/etc." Well, get a separate HDD (internal, external) and put all that stuff on it.

I'm running a 16GB SSD with Windows 7 Professional installed on it. Have roughly 4GB of space left and it is miles faster than any mechanical drive.
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6/22/12 at 11:25pm
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Agreed, until I built my new computer I used a pretty standard HDD and thought SSDs were a ripoff because of the low amount of storage they offered. I managed to get a good deal on all the parts for my PC so an SSD wasn't a big hit on the budget and so I decided to get one. i could never go back to an HDD. Everything about my PC is instantaneous now. I keep the games i play on the SSD and backup the ones I don't play on my HDD and just switch them around. It works perfectly fine and the games run with no loading screens ever.



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We try but no one listens. sadsmiley.gif
I hate it when I hear, "But I won't have enough space for all of my {blank} games or music/videos/etc." Well, get a separate HDD (internal, external) and put all that stuff on it.
I'm running a 16GB SSD with Windows 7 Professional installed on it. Have roughly 4GB of space left and it is miles faster than any mechanical drive.



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6/22/12 at 11:59pm
this is awesome news, i just finished my build and even with all new parts except the gpus, my ssds are my favorite part of the build by far. the only thing im still taboo'd about with them is the fact that i still think they would slow down after a couple years and decay in performance, and that would be sped up by lots of copying files and such. but i figure with all the new developments with ssds now that is a thing of the past, and even then you have companies putting out 5 year long warranties on em as well, i mean cmon!
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6/23/12 at 12:09am
The best part is that prices are even lower then stated here on sale. I snagged a 128GB Samsung 830 for $0.70 a GB. Also, this isn't slow syncronous nand memory like my current OCZ Solid 3 uses. We are talking about Samsung toggle nand, a 3 core ARM controller, and in house PCB. Cheap SSD's are now performing at the same speeds that the top of the line SSD's did last year, just for a lot less coin. biggrin.gifthumb.gif

The people who say that SSD's aren't worth it have never really used one before. The overall boost that they can have to a system are great, and it is great news that prices have come way down. Also, with a HDD to hold all of your media / most games a 60GB - 120GB SSD is plenty so it's not like you have to shell out $500 for a monster sized SSD.
Edited by AtomicFrost - 6/23/12 at 12:12am
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