To SSD Or Not To SSD. Some excellent reading right HERE, guys!

SSD is worth it if for no other reason than no defrag for me. Now the price just needs to drop

Fold On!!!!

You don't have to defrag a SSD?

Edit: never mind I found the answer. Guess I should read the post first.

I'm giving them a couple of more years to get the SSD quality up and the price down, at which point I'll probably go hybrid:  SSD for the OS and apps, and more traditional multi-terabyte drives for data.

Though, I'd definitely consider it right away for a laptop - were I in the market.

I'd say the other way around regular HDs for the OS and apps and SSDs for data.

bob_on_the_cob:

I'd say the other way around regular HDs for the OS and apps and SSDs for data.

Then you wouldn't get the speed benefit when booting the OS (lots of small files, less seek time).  The only thing related to the OS that I would put on a standard drive would be the swap partition (and that's actually optional 'data', in my viewpoint).

If you have a huge amount of data, it's much more economical to put it on standard drives.  If you're not worried about capacity, cost of mirroring, and re-write lifetime, going SSD all the way is probably best.

-J

I was thinking relability. Save your data on the SSDs and the current speed of say a raptor drive for your OS and games. Cost being no option of course. When the price goes down and the performance gets better for sure SSD all the way.

raptor drives rock, still using my old 74gb 16mb cache raptor. 


in the future i see ssd for os/games/aps (like a raptor) and regular hard drives for data, music, video etc...
basically replace a raptor with a ssd :-p  

Indeed i agree with Ice_73 the are good applications but spinnig state drives have their use for mass storage...