QOTW: Is now the best time to buy an SSD?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 22 June 2012, 16:30

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We've been strong advocates for readers using solid-state drives (SSDs) in all of their systems. The creamy-smooth, zippy feeling that comes from near-instant access has to be seen and felt to be genuinely appreciated.

Adding further weight to the use of SSDs as boot-drives has been lent by febrile price-cutting in recent weeks, as it is now possible to pick up a quality 120GB drive for under £70 all in. Just this week there appears to be a hiatus in the savage day-on-day cuts we've become accustomed to. Prices have stabilised somewhat, leading to an interesting question. Do you believe that now is a good a time as any to purchase an SSD, or will you keep on waiting in the expectation that prices will continue to plummet in the near future?

And making this a multi-pronged QOTW, do folk who already own an SSD, or two, see much sense in adding/replacing their existing stock? Do let us know where you stand in the comments below.



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Went half way and bought a cache.
Paid £132 for a 240G HyperX. Feel like I got a good deal - wife's 120G Agility 3 was about the same price last year
i got a 60GB OCZ Agility SSD and wishing i had waited just a month as for just £5 more i can now have twice the capacity. already on my final couple of GB's.
Just recently bought and installed a Crucial M4 128Gb as a boot drive for £80.
They way prices are going I will get another 240Gb game/app drive in a few months i think.
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i got a 60GB OCZ Agility SSD and wishing i had waited just a month as for just £5 more i can now have twice the capacity. already on my final couple of GB's.
Same deal here - although I got the 64GB Vertex2E - and I'm down to about 4GB free space on that drive (Windows 7 boot drive). Just paid £80 each for a pair of Samsung 830's (128GB), one's in the Ubuntu laptop I'm using now, the other will replace the Vertex, (when I can be bothered to figure out how to get into that desktop PC!).

Way prices are falling I think come Christmas I'll be able to afford a 256GB+ drive to replace the app drive in the desktop which is currently a partition on a 1TB HDD. And Christmas 2013 I'll probably be able to replace that 1TB drive with SSD.

To answer the question - “whenever you have the money” is the right time to buy an SSD. Price per MB will continue to fall I suspect as we get on that spiral of folks buying them because they're getting cheaper, and the price falling further because of economies of scale.