Best time to Buy SSD?

When do you guys forsee cheaper SSDs? Should I buy one this coming holiday? Or wait for the next fastest SSD to come out that will slash prices on the slower SSDs?

Intel released their 2nd-generation SSDs just a week or two ago, and they are priced substantially less than before. The other SSD manufacturers are starting to lower their prices to compete. So prices going forward are just now dropping from the levels we've seen over the past several months.

My guess is that once this current round of price cutting works its way through the channels that you won't see any other significant price cuts for another several months.

I am hoping by this holiday season to be able to pick up at least an 80GB (prefer at least 120GB) SSD for <$200.

How exactly are they expensive? People waste 250+ on a single Vraptor drive when they can have a kickass G2 intel SSD

The 300GB Velociraptor is $200 right now, which is $20 or so less than an 80GB Intel drive. If you need more than 80GB, the choice is quite clear. The SSDs have dropped a lot in price, yes, but the Velociraptor still destroys them in price per GB, and it is a decent performing drive, honestly. I can still see a valid reason to get one.

I regularly unrar large files, and the system doesn't slow down at all. I don't have any SSDs in my system, and yet it works flawlessly. How? The unraring is on a separate drive (WD caviar black 1tb) from the OS/apps (RAID 0 velociraptor array). Sure, the unraring is slower than it would be on an SSD, but since the rest of the system is basically unaffected by the process, I just let it go in the background while using the rest of the system for other tasks.

The Velociraptors were $440 (for two 300GB drives), and the Caviar Black was around $80. At the time, a good 64GB SSD was $600-$700, so I'd say the velociraptors were well worth it by comparison. Actually, you would have the same effect with any dual drive setup though, as long as the OS/apps were on a different drive from the rar files. A pair of $80 drives would do just fine (though the OS drive would be slower).

$1k? Hell no. $440 was for the pair, not per drive.

Nope - no SSD right now. I didn't buy one because they were too expensive per GB for what I needed at the time. I'm thinking of buying an X25-m when Win7 comes out though, and then using the Velociraptors as app drives and putting the OS on the X25.