ElyrionX said:
I think they'll be a much bigger deal when you can get significantly larger ones for significantly less money. My system drive up and crapped out on me a couple weeks ago and, feeling flush with cash and with the hard drive click of doom still echoing in my ears, I picked up a 60 gigabyte Vertex to replace it. Now Windows boots up crazy fast, and once it hits the desktop it's ready to go, no waiting for startup programs or anything.
But there's only about 45 gigabytes left after Windows took its share, and so pretty much anything big (like, say, games) ends up still sitting on good old-fashioned magnetic storage and so you're getting a fat lot of nothing out of the SSD for all that stuff.
When it gets cheap enough for you to have large quantities of super-fast SSD storage then things are gonna be pretty sweet. 'Til then the benefit of an SSD is heavily reliant on how many of the programs you most want sped up you can cram into a relatively small storage footprint.
