Is SSD worth it?

Anyone use a SSD as their primary drive with windows?? Is it worth it?? I was thinking about building a system with two 256 GB SSD's in RAID 0 but before I spend $1500 I wanted to ask the community..........

Wow, that's not the route I would go..That's enough for a new pc! You're running a mechanical drive right now, you would notice a difference immediately with a SSD boot drive. More so with a raid 0, but realize that this technology is still in its infancy, and requires alot more maintenance than a standard drive. Especially in a raid setup.

I recommend reviewing the SSD articles here and at Anandtech especially, Anand has certainly done his homework on the subject. But there is an article that was published here the other day looking at some low cost alternatives.

I am about to take the plunge in two short weeks, I plan to get a Kingston 40GB SSD now (Intel based) for a boot drive and a samsung f3 500gb for storage. This will run me about $180 dollars, and a great boost in performance. For about 210 I could go for the 1Tb samsung.

The problem with computer components is that the best time to buy them is always next month......

Instead of jumping into the SSD game by going RAID0, why not see how quick one of them is? Real world difference won't be much since the access time is what you are gaining with SSD and striping a set of them won't help that figure out.

That is, unless you spend half your time at the system just moving giant files around or use a benchmark suite as a screen saver.

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You missied my point - GET a SSD, But wait 3/4 monthes (Read my link in my first post). There is a new line coming out from OCZ also Intel will be releasing some new one. My perception is that prices will drop on current lines, and if money is not a option the OCZ one will beat the current King, Intel.

As to Raid0. While very little benifit in boot time and program loads (Solved when he gets an SSD), the Raid0 does boost working with larger files such as Pitures (Jpegs and bitmap) and video files ( 1 gig for .vob and => 15 gigs for Mts files)

I have: 80 gig Intel G2 - desktop, a 128 Gig patriot Torqx -laptop and in desktops 3 pairs of Raid0, one with XP, one with vista and one with win 7 RC. Also forgeting Raid0, I would prefer 2 seperate HDD's to one Large drive.

OK, so I just installed an SSD and went from Windows 7 RC to RTM a couple of days ago. Before I reinstalled, I did an image backup of the RC system and restored it to the SSD to compare the boot, logon and application startup times.

To give a completely objective comparison between the two, I filmed them using my digital camera and uploaded the results here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTHX0MqVMss

Hopefully you'll be able to view this to see for yourself what the difference is like. This is my first you-tube upload - if you have any problems viewing the video, please let me know.

Well I'm using two crucial 64gb ssd's in raid 0 and it works great. There is a big gain in photoshop and the drives take up very little space. There connected to an areca 12 channel raid controller but I get 450mb/s read, 400mb/s write and an internal file copy of 250mb/s. The internal file copy speed of an intel 80gb drive is 30mb/s so don't touch them. I'm also about to upgrade to 4 ssd's but I need a bigger case first.