05-30-2012, 10:08 PM
The draw of SSD is that they read a lot faster than normal hard drives, so things that are very disk-read intensive get sped up. One of the main bottle-necks of a computer is the hard drive, so increasing read speed loads programs faster and makes the OS boot really fast.
The reason I don't really see it as a benefit is that with my 10K RPM drive, most of my games load within a second or two and I reboot my OS once per week at most, so the only time I'd really be seeing the benefits would be shaving a half-second off a loading screen or making my computer boot up a little faster very rarely.
I'll wait until they're on equal pricing with normal drives probably.
The reason I don't really see it as a benefit is that with my 10K RPM drive, most of my games load within a second or two and I reboot my OS once per week at most, so the only time I'd really be seeing the benefits would be shaving a half-second off a loading screen or making my computer boot up a little faster very rarely.
I'll wait until they're on equal pricing with normal drives probably.