SSD - to wait or not to wait

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So my friend got an Intel 80GB SSD and speaks highly of it. Win7 starts in 15 seconds etc etc. Apparently they're releasing a new series pretty soon, so I wonder if it's worth the wait.

My system on an old Caviar 500GB HDD is behaving oddly right now, so this is an annoyance that influences my decision. It sometimes freezes up for about a minute or more in Win7, with programs not responding (skype, firefox, it even fails to bring up the task manager). As soon as I fire up a game it has no problems whatsoever. Guess it could be non-HDD related, regardless I'm heading for a fresh OS install, and if I'm going to reinstall the OS I feel I might as well buy a new drive before I do that. I plan to keep my HDD as a storage drive of course, with the system and select games on the SSD.

Should I just buy one right now or wait for the G3s, or go for Corsair or whatever that other brand was called?
 
As of today, intel g2 is the best performance wise. Considering that g3 improvements over g2 will be similar to g2 over g1, IMO waiting for G3 is not essential, TRIM is already in g2. The point is, do you really need SSD since two good HDDs in RAID 0 are cheaper, bigger and have comparable speed.
 
15 seconds isn't that impressive. Mine starts in 30-45, and I have pretty standard HDDs.

I'd wait at least 2 years before going SSD for anything other than posssibly a system disk. It's like DDR3.
 
I just did a round of prospective shopping for SSDs, and for my budget they're still just too expensive. I'll check again in six months.

If I had money to burn, I'd go for it, though. New toys! Since no one I know has one, I can't even get a hands-on trial.

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I bought a 64 gig the other day.

15 Seconds? Try 3 - 6.

Absolutely adore the thing, cannot speak highly enough about the speed increase.
 
If I didn't own an SSD, I'd probably tell you SSDs weren't worth it yet, that performance increase didn't justify the steep price or whatever. But having used an Intel X25-M G2 for more than two months now, I can state with absolute confidence that I can't imagine ever going back to using a HDD, as every system with a disk drive now seems intolerably slow and clunky to me. So yes, buy one right now if you've got the money.
 
Got one on my netbook, and I'm very happy with i t.

I'm going to wait a bit to get one for my main PC, but want to wait for the price to drop a bit.
 
Thanks for the input guys. Looks like I'll pick one up during the weekend.
 
Xellos said:
As of today, intel g2 is the best performance wise. Considering that g3 improvements over g2 will be similar to g2 over g1, IMO waiting for G3 is not essential, TRIM is already in g2. The point is, do you really need SSD since two good HDDs in RAID 0 are cheaper, bigger and have comparable speed.
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Comparable in speed if you are copying large files, perhaps, but nowhere near comparable in access times (and two HDDs in raid 0 get slightly worse access times than a single HDD). For a system drive, even the velociraptors can't beat the SSD drives (other than with space/cost ratio) :D
 
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