I'll have a look at getting one of them for xmas. Cheers.

I bought two of the first gen samsung ssd's and put them in RAID. I basically got two 64GB 90MB/s read 70MB/s write ones.

I get around 140MB/s read speed in HD Tach. It's not as fast copying writing large files but system responsiveness is night and day even with these slower drives.

From novatech I got 128GB for under £185ish quid.

Hi Phil, I am interested in speeding up my pc. What spec SSD would you recommend? I'm guessing read of 150MB+/s, write of 100MB+/s.

Thanks.

If jub-jub had actually used a computer with an SSD he would see why they are so popular.

My computer boots and is responsive within a minute, not the usual grinding away as all your startup apps load.

It's made more difference to the responsiveness of my computer than any other purchase I've made.

I still have HDDs for my music/movies etc but having my apps and OS on the SSD is awesome.

If all you are interested in is slow bulk storage then keep buying HDDs by all means. SSDs do however support much higher workloads in real life applications. There's no rotational latency, no head seek time and very little interface overhead. The result is that if you're trying to run a database, for example (which is something that quite a lot of companies do), then these Seagates will give you roughly 100 times the IO performance of a top-of-the-range HDD. Put another way you'd need a very expensive array of HDDs to match only one SDD for performance in the areas that matter.

The other factor that enterprise companies are interested in is failure rates. How often do they need to send a man into the data centre with a replacement, and for how long is their data at risk. Seagate are claiming a failure rate nearly half that of their enterprise grade HDDs. That in it's self is worth the extra cost to many of them.

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can anyone guess the price?
£300? £400?, £500?

i can - "£too much" whatever tag they put on it

i wonder how much £ these manufacturers of SSDs are losing while the buying public continue to purchase massive capacity spinning discs instead of immensely-priced and small flash memory...

Whats up with that job title? Isnt product line management part of Marketing? His title tells me he doesnt think Marketing can do Product line management and so he is in charge of it. If Marketing cant manage the Product line get rid of marketing.

Ever notice how the length of a title is inversely proportional to the persons responsibility? CEO - done. CEO and special assistant to the Chairman of the Board for Marketing and Product Line Management - this one isnt long for his/her position.

Maybe Seagate is late to the market because no one is doing - MARKETING?? They are assessing long job titles...

big difference...its for OEMs only.