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Originally Posted by b1lk1  Because a faster storage drive won't help for one FPS or help me manage my PC any better. A 10 year old IDE drive is going to work the exact same in game than any SSD. Sure the SSD will kill it in loading speeds and starting Windows, I don't dispute that. 99% of the people running SSD's still need a mechanical storage drive for keeping everything.
Until prices drop, it makes no sense, unless you have money to burn, to pay so much for so little storage. |
It's been very common for quite some time now to use a very fast smaller drive for the OS.
Take the Raptors for example. Quite a few people, myself included, have been running them for years, simply because they do make a decent difference to the performance enthusiast.
And SSD's have hit the price point where they dominate Raptors at the lower drive sizes.
I would agree though, that SSD's are a huge waste of money in the larger sizes though.
Right now a 960gb OCZ SSD is $1,100 US. And that's quite a bit less than the rest of the market.
For a backup drive they would be fantastic. The ability to copy a blu-ray sized file in a half minute would save a lot of time.
But until they're affordable at the 1tb size, minimum, they're still not very useful for anything other than the OS. But that's not such a bad thing.