I just ordered this
if you canadians hurry, you still have … 30 minutes to get it at 54% off (90$ after 25$ mail-in rebate instead of 190$) + free shipping.
Never had a SSD before, I’m really curious on what will come out of it. I’m hoping lots of speed :jizz:
My current 1TB drive is pretty noisy, so I’ll hear it less as well (I’ll keep it as a secondary drive, of course… I couldn’t survive with 60GB of storage)
Any of you have one like these? What do you think of them, etc, etc…
if 1TB SSDs wouldn’t cost 3000€ I would buy one, but the prices are too high.
The costs to produce SSDs are lower than normal HDDs and they’re still more expensive.
I wasn’t really planning to buy one either, because of the price… but at 50% off, I figured: why not 
What!? Really?
If what you’re saying is true then that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.
Of course they are more expensive, because the technology is still being researched and still very much in development. The mass production of SSD drives is still starting up, so there aren’t a lot of SSD devices out there (relative to HDD devices). So few devices, high demand… seems only logical that you get high prices.
The first harddisk that was ever created, was made by IBM in 1956. It was the size of about two refrigerators and could store a whopping 5 megabytes of data. Nowadays you’d have to pay people to take such a thing off your hands, back then it cost around $10,000 per megabyte. Ka-ching.
It may surprise you by the way, that the SSD technology isn’t that much younger than the HDD technology. If you’re interested in the subject, have a read on wikipedia about the development and history of SSD drives.
So, for the time being SSD devices are high-priced. If you don’t like it, then the only thing you can do is wait until SSD technology evolves a bit more, mass-production streamlines and the demand for the devices drops a little bit.
When SSD’s become around £50 for a 200Gb I’ll buy one, so I’m gonna wait a few years until then.
Production costs of things only define a minimium cost, the worth of the thing defines the actual value; because the solid state drives are worth more, they cost more. People are willing to pay more for them, and business’s take them up on such offers.
I would buy one when 200Gb cost around 100€.
I will buy one when I won’t be able to just rip open the box and put it in my pocket.
sersoft, how do you manage to do that? Around here all the hardware in the shops is in glass display cases. If you’ve found a way around that please do share!
The only stuff in cases at the place I go to is CPU chips and the higher end graphics cards. Although I think you’d have a hard time trying to get out of a store with a graphics card in your pocket :retard: .
I’ve done it 3 times.
With a 9800GTX+(sold) a 8600GTS(sold) and a 8800GT(currently in use)
Kids don’t try this at your local PC shop, these stunts must be performed by a professional idiot.
bravo champion
Why did you sell the 9800gtx?
my powerbox wasn’t good enough to power it, and it’s not a big leap ahead of the 8800GT that I have now
you thief! calling 911
From Norway? I don’t think that’s going to work.
I don’t think it’s 911 in Norway anyway .
That was the point, it’s 112.
OR ARE YOU JUST MESSING WITH ME???
Sersoft, have you ever been booked for swiping computer components?
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