new SSD now or wait?

[mcveigh]

it's time to upgrade the wifes computer.
I really want to get her a SSD.. but ready all the new stuff at CES should I wait?
I'm not buying top of the line, but I was thinking about a 60-80Gb drive. maybe a C300 or a vertex2?
getting a 2TB samsun F4 for storage.
will be upgrading her to windows7.

Also is newegg packaging hard drives acceptably now or should I use someone else?

 

[SaoFeng]

i'm in the same boat..but i want a 120gb ssd drive

 

[tracerit]

i got a cheap 60GB Kingston V100 64GB for $85 AR ($110+$10 tax - $35 rebate) to tide me over until Summer. by then I'll hop onto the next gen drives.

 

[mcveigh]

i'm leaning towards waiting right now.

 

[steve wilson]

I just ordered my new PC and decided to just use a mechanical drive for a couple of months and then just copy the drive over to a next gen SSD. Saves me a bit of money now and apparently the next gen will be cheaper.

Here's some advise in another thread on how to copy mechanical drive to an SSD in case anyone is wondering.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2134090

 

[hal2kilo]

Also is newegg packaging hard drives acceptably now or should I use someone else?

I think reports of New Eggs shipping packaging quality are overblown.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=31062785&postcount=4

 

[BBMW]

The big pop seems to come from going from no SSD to an SSD. I don't think they'll be a huge pop (user noticeable) from a fast SSD (available now) to a very fast SSD (6 months from now).

 

[FlasHBurN]

Yeah, that's pretty much why I jumped on the Vertex 2 120GB now. I figure the performance difference won't be too substantial, and I don't mind the fact that I might of paid $20-$30 more to get it now versus a few months from now. I really needed to replace my 74GB Raptor.

 

[Emulex]

the pop will be going from a small ssd to a large ssd. not faster. you can do fast right now with raid-0 but latency goes up. latency is the big pop from hard drive to ssd if you forgot. you can get drives that sustain 150meg+ across the platter but the latency is 1000x slower esp with heavy queue depth when multitasking.

heck many drives write faster for linear editing than ssd.

latency,capacity, price.

the enterprise market is going to eat up so much NAND that price is going to remain high so i guess and latency is already awesome, so i guess that leaves more capacity (at the same price point? 110gb usable for $200?)

 

[boozie]

So this is Q2 or later for more capacity at same price?

 

[Emulex]

who said more capacity at same price. the demand for enterprise flash is so huge i think it will be more price actually. you have no idea how many people want their servers filled with eMLC right now this second. they are ready to throw down $2000 a drive and fill up 8 or 16 2.5" hot swap bays. plus corporate customers make things work. not whiney little .... you know.

 

[boozie]

who said more capacity at same price.

Err I must have read it wrong.

so i guess that leaves more capacity (at the same price point? 110gb usable for $200?)

So if I am building a computer sometime between now and June, should I just get an SSD whenever I see a deal I like or is it worth waiting?

 

[JimKiler]

I think reports of New Eggs shipping packaging quality are overblown.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=31062785&postcount=4

agreed. I know some drives are DOA on arrival but drives are made to handle some abuse that shipping give a drive.