hold off on build until SSD's fall in price?

[bhome83]

Want to build a new computer but was curious how long you guys think that SSD prices are going to stay relatively high? Do you think we still have another year before SSD prices are going to fall dramatically in price? I also want USB 3.0 and and blu ray burner so this is probably a bad time to build a new computer if it will be somewhat 'outdated' in a year or so. Your thoughts? My budget is around $1500 and I'm not a gamer, so that rules out an expensive video card

Thanks

[mattaggie]

Why do you want a SSD drive for a desktop? They arent as fast, have limited life and are way more expesive $/GB. Also, I think USB 3 is projected for 2010. A common philosophy for building PCs is that if you are waiting for the next great advance to build, you will never build.

[bhome83]

that's true, technology is always advancing. Are you saying though that SSD drives wont become commonplace in desktop computers in the near future? Always thought they had LONGER life than a regular HDD, and were faster?

[Lespaul20]

Saying SSD are slow is generally an inaccurate statement. Most, if not all, SSDs have a significantly better read speeds. The write speed is using the weak point of SSDs. The life of SSDs are becoming no more of a problem than spinning hard drives. The MTBF of SSDs are usually around the same as the spinning drives and are getting better all the time. They wouldn't be the next big thing in enterprise storage if they were slower and had a shorter life. The price point is valid however.

[Masaki 7-11]

The quality of SSDs vary a lot depending on brand and price, unless you get the more expensive ones, the performance isn't much better than a hard drive. The problem with SSDs in terms of reliability is that they have a given number of read/writes that can be handled per cell, after that number, the cell may not work anymore corrupting any data within. For most desktops I don't see the need for the speed of a good quality SSD, pretty much any hard drive 500GB and higher will provide a good level of performance.

[jdeb]

I think you will see prices starting to drop by June and by the end of the year they will start to push SATA hd's sales down.

[Lespaul20]

Price will continue to drop as sales go up. I'm not sure when they will be a economical alternative to spinning disks.

The write endurance of SSDs is already about the same as the LCD versus CRT for gaming regarding refresh/response times, I wouldn't factor it in unless you are planning on keeping your drive for a long time or you have lots of I/O going on.

The price/GB is the biggest problem right now.