Hi, im going to build a new desktop within the next 10 weeks, im currently looking at components online to put together my shopping list. One thing that i dont need is a huge hard drive, the reason is that i simply dont hold much on my hard drive and have no need for 1 or 2TB. I see that solid state hard drives are around now, they are smaller in storage i know but from what im reading they are pretty good, to be honest i can get by with a 64GB solid state, it might seem small to some people but enough for me. What i would like to know is have you bought one and using one and what do you think of them? Any noticable difference? Im looking at the Kingston V Series ones available.
Well, I've reviewed SSDs from Kingston, Western Digital and now Corsair. Its best if you pick up Corsair F60 series if you're looking for a good one. But if you're looking cheap, I can't see anything else other than Kingston. Just a tip. If you are going to reformat your ssd, do a secure erase to restore the read/write performance. I could have suggested OCZ but some of those drives come with 25 NM flash NAND issue. Intel extended their warranty period to 5 years on SSD. Check our X25-M lineup as well. SSD is the way to go. If you need more space its obvious you will use that as storage. You get drives like Seagate GoFlex series which powers up upto 1.5TB drives on a single usb (3.0 but has backward compatibility with 2.0). Also, if you're looking for something with more space but with some better-than-usual mecha performance, look out for seagate momentus 7200 RPM drives. Snappy drives with pretty decent (for a 2.5inch 9mm thick drive) boot load and its 4k aligned. Just make sure you don't pick up the drive with the SD24 Firmware. There's also WD Black BBKT series.
I'd strongly recommend going with SSDs. The speed is a noticeable improvement, and you can think of this purchase as in investment - unlike regular, bulky hard drives, this can be resold and actually still "usable" in a few years.
Hi The Sorcerer, i will have a look at the Corsair F60 series too on your recommendation, thanks very much for your input and advice. Hi Michael, thanks for your input, im going to follow your advice and buy a SSD, as you mentioned the noticeable speed improvment and its quite appealing to me, as an investment is a good way of looking at it.