so what exactly do you stuff into the ssd but leave on the hdd? do you chuck your steam folder into the ssd for example? (apparently i have like 70 odd gb from only a handful of games.. guess it's the mmo.)

I used symlinks to put important games on the SSD until I got a second one, then I had the OS on one and games on the other.  Now with the third, pretty much everything I use is on the SSDs,  The last HD I use is backups only now.

For those that can afford it.. after feeding their families, paying bills, groceries (ha!), spending 12 bucks a day just for gas, forking out for medication, dealing with intensely increased light bills, putting aside funds for emergencies..etc etc

 Are SSD’s worth it? Answer: YES

 Agreed.

Simple enough....

....there's always more important things to spend your money on...

Oh...FFS ....if you have a few hundred to spend upgrading a computer...it's WORTH IT TO SPEND IT ON A SSD.

There.

Happy now?....

Needless to say....my 'ploy' to do a hand-me-down upgrade of my SSD kinda went south....the recipient of the hand-me-down...an Acer Travelmate I paid about 300 for just decided to toast it's recharge plug....and it ain't worth it to fork out 150 more for a new MoBo.... easier to bin it and get something newer.....

Still....means I have a couple of gig of ram AND an SSD for the next one....

Now I kinda wish I could buy a laptop without a drive in it.  I wonder what HP sales would say to that request.  Heh.

Would love one, but just can't justify the expense.  So much software is so bloated, I need high capacity, and regular hard drives were still more than ten times the bang for the buck than SSD the last time I was in the market for a hard drive ... sucked, but I really needed a lot of capacity, and SSDs were still too expensive for the capacity.

Alright, I finally broke down and ordered it. I went with this:

OCZ Technology 256GB Vertex 4 Series SATA 6.0 GB/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) With Industry's Highest 120K IOPS And 5-Year Warranty - VTX4-25SAT3-256G

Seems real fast and it has a 5 year warranty, so it must have a good rate of non failures.

They are starting to become fairly common in higher end laptops. Not so much in desktops yet.

I guess it depends on the rest of the rig as to whether an SSD is worth it then? (even if the answer is usually going to be yes.) ... ?

about that ocz vertex 4 Anthony bought, i hope it never fails because ocz's tech support is atrocious. i hate saying that because i used their ram for years and years in my rigs and put more in customer rigs along the way. when their customer service was phone based, it was great. when they changed to strictly email based support from china or wherever it is, it took a nosedive immediately. heck, i called corsair to ask questions about which drive of theirs to buy and explained that i was calling them due to issues with the ocz drive i had at the time and believe it or not, the corsair tech guy helped me get the ocz drive to work as it should. needless to say, i dumped that ocz drive and bought a corsair piece. i've changed capacities a few times in the last 18 months or so but stayed with corsair until the last couple of weeks. i bought a samsung 840 pro 256 and i'm loving it so much i may get another after Christmas and raid those babies.

wizard, i've had a couple of customers whose rigs have sata II motherboards in them who wanted an ssd installed and they have to yet to complain about the performance increases they saw. granted, most new rigs have sata III boards but quite a few people have sata II rigs yet. for those, i don't recommend the higher-end drives but the mid-range drives instead. for example, instead of a corsair force GT, they could go with a corsair force or corsair nova unit. the corsair nova series is great with sata II machines. that series is aimed at budget minded folks and if i remember correctly, it's strictly sata II. for its price, it's hard to beat.