They are overpriced! For $300 for a 64 gig SSD, I can buy close to 3X 1 Terabye hardddrives!

Yea, when the 128gb gets around the $100 range ill buy it, but i dont see a need for one now as a 7200 rpm does fine for now.

I have not and probably won't for at least another year or 2. Or whenever the price drops significantly.

not yet, cant decide weather to get a 128gig SSD or a 2TB normal HDD

Not until the price comes down and the storage goes up...

I agree with last 2 posters. I use 7200 rpm hard drive, and I don't feel as if my load times on any games or programs are so slow to the point where it's an issue.

I'd gladly pay $2 to $3 per GB on a SSD, but at 300 for 64GB, thats just crazy for something that doesn't improve FPS in games.

And when it comes to load times for people who don't care about gaming, I can't think of any program that loads so slow that I would want to fork over a ton of cash for such a small drive size for the sake of performance.

Overpriced, in Brazil i don't think i'll afford one soon.

Yes. I only bought a small one to load Vista onto and my games... but O delete them once I have beat them so space isn't a big deal. I LOVE the read speeds but write speeds could use some improving. Though they are better than a 7200rpm drive I would like to see better.

Nope too overpriced.

I will buy a SSD once...

1) They get the same price/gigabyte as hard drives

2) They address the short write life. IE once they can remove the wear leveling crap.

Until then ill keep my 10k drive, which is already plenty fast. I dont wait for files at all. Who cares if a SSD is 10 times faster when a 10k drive is already only takes a tiny fraction of a second to do what i ask of it.

When SSDs have a 100k write cycle life, and are ~$150 for 512+ gigabytes ill buy one.

I've used them a few times, but only installations for buisness equiptment. They're quick, but the fastest ones arent worth it unless you've got shareholders backing your financials up.

Nope. Price must come down and the capacity must go up. I can't afford the drives to load all of the programs I use on them. At the least, I would need one for Windows, one for games (at least 500GB) and one for video editing. The music and TV shows could stay on a mechanical drive.

Nope. The crappy 4gb one that came in my eee pc has like 5 i/o per second, 40mb/s read and 15mb/s write. So needless to say im skeptical, even of intel and claimed read speeds of 200mb/s. Ive got a 500Gb 7200.12 that gets 130mb/s read and write that i picked up for $60. I can get a second and a 2x Sata RAID controller for only another $90 ( Rosewill RAID card ). In RAID 1 that would get me well over 200mb/s read for a total of $150. 1/3 the price of intel's model, but with 3x the storage

Yes, X25-M for boot drive. Love the quietness and responsiveness. Will never go back to a hard drive for boot. Planning to put this in HTPC. Love it so much that I bought two more for raid-0 boot drive in next build. Yes, they are expensive, but I am not a gamer so I get by with an inexpensive 4670 graphics card and a modest 500W power supply.

I've installed the Patriot PE256GS25SSDR in two setups, both times well worth it. I've compared the stats to the Intel SSDs to, and it seems the Patriot is faster overall. It doesn't have the same read speeds (barely), but the extra capacity is well worth it. With the Intel SSDs, you can only install the OS and a few programs before you max it out. The PE256GS25SSDR has much more capacity.

no ... price are too high and the capacity are low , and i don't wanna be the white mouse in the lab , wait for another two years to see if it fix all its problem first .

Nope

I'm planning to get one as soon as prices go down for 256Gig one. I'd like to connect one to my Asus WL-500W router to have access to all my music and maybe movies across the whole house. HDD will be too noisy and unreliable in the long run (I think).

Yes, 2 OCZ Core V2 30GB in RAID 0 on an Adaptec raid card. The performance is awesome!!! These drives aren't really too expensive, I got them for $50 each from Newegg on sale a while ago. I plan on getting 2 more when the price gets even lower or on ebay to have 4 in RAID 0.

Waiting. Would like to get a ~150GB one, but 400$ is WAY too much. Only for the few and the extreme.

No. Once I can get a 256 for $150 or so, I will get one.

Yup, OCZ Vertex series are cheap and super fast especially when in raid 0.

The difference from regular drives is night and day.

I would buy the 300GB velociraptor long before I get a SSD. You can get 2 velociraptor for the price of one 250GB SSD.

Correction: 3 velociraptor

You all need to realize you dont need a massive SSD. You need enough room for OS and apps, and grab some regular old drives for storage.

2 32GB X25-Es in Raid 0. I had heard they were fast, but seeing them in action is pretty sweet stuff

No, like many posters I too will wait for prices to actually reach reasonable levels before even considering one.

Then there is this issue: "2) They address the short write life. IE once they can remove the wear leveling crap."

That's more important than price.

The OCZ Vertex series makes it REALLY appealing, but the problem is that I would still need a conventional hard drive because of the video/audio editing I do. I've settled for getting a great computer with a good HDD (WD Caviar Black 640GB) and get an SSD sometime in the future for my OS and programs, then use the HDD for media only.

No need. I'm happy with my WD 1TB Black edition. Even though I'm not using most of it, yet, SDDs don't have enough capacity for me. If I want more disk performance I can add another 2 for RAID 5. Not only that, but I don't like the short write life of SDDs.

nope, price

Yes. Intel X25-M 160GB, and I've installed firmware 1.1. Bought it instead of the X25-E because of hard drive size. Most noticable upgrade ever; reminds me of P4/4GB -> Core/8GB upgrade.

I have the Samsung SSD's in my main computer 2 x 64 in raid. I have a 64 gig Samsung in my Play Station 3 and I have a 32 gig version in my Dell Latitude laptop. I've had about 5 sets or rapter drives in my PC's over the years and I love the SSD's. My entire room is no longer dominated by hard drive chatter.