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An SSD would be replacing my 4 year old 7200 RPM drive recycled from my former computer. I can't even imagine how fast my startup and shutdown times would be, and how fast saving those large Photoshop files would go. O.o I've never had a RAID setup or SSDs at all, but I was planning to work over the summer and put some of that towards an SSD. JBOD mechanical HDDs and IDE drives are about as fast (or as slow) as I know.

Dear EVGA,

What will I do with the SSD from EVGA?
Solid State Drives are considered to be the best storage solutions to any kind of computing. Suffice to say, I will donate it to my University, because I know my school can definitely take this device and improve our education. For one, SSD can bring faster data loading time, which can save a lot of time during lectures that require to load heavy data. At any rate, I just like to thank EVGA for giving people another opportunity to improve our world. 

Sincerely,

Kelvin An

SSD drive will benefit me in many ways over the older HDD such as; faster time in loading and shut down with windows. Once I get it in my hand, the chance I think it will be a failure drive is less. It will be much quieter and energy efficiency. File transfer will be much faster and overall going smoothly with photoshop and big apps related. It is small and portable, I can either put in my main desktop rig or simply in my laptop whenever or wherever I need to. I can't do that with regular mechanical drive. I used mechanical drives since windows 95, the new SSD will totally be a new product that I haven't experience yet. Every year, manufacturer has a faster HDD, but the overall benefit to me it just like an update. However, the new SSD to me is like an upgrade. It's not just faster or better but overall a huge jump in computer drive technology. 

To me, SSD technology represents the next large step forward in the evolution of personal computing. Slowly but surely, solid state disks are making their way into the mainstream realm. Due to pricing based on storage space, the higher performing, higher capacity drives are reserved mostly for enthusiasts at this time, but with the technology rapidly advancing, manufacturers should be able to offer the superior performance of SSD's to the majority of people sooner rather than later.

My roomate and I are working hard trying to get our own custom enthusiast system and case modding company off the ground. This is not something I share with many people, because most people feel that for us this is just a pipe dream. With the stranglehold the stagnant econmy has on the region, and as completely unknown builders, anything we do is on our own dime, and it has been extremely difficult to continue moving forward at the rate we'd like. We are both in the midst of constantly evolving projects that we will eventually use as a template and examples of the services we will offer to customers. Our love of computers, building, and design has led us to this point, and our hope is to offer a higher quality of custom PC to those who love the combination of aesthetic beauty and top tier performance in custom builds as much as we do. Also, we hope to offer the highest quality hardware possible, instead of cutting corners with lower quality components like some others do. 

Continuing has been difficult, and each revision in our designs has come after only great personal sacrifice. There are many more things that need to fall into place in order for us to get our dream off the ground, and once we do, we expect things to become even more difficult. One piece in this puzzle is our own projects. For me, the performance of an SSD has not been something I have been able to attain yet, and as the revisions and mods on my project continue, other things will take increased priority, particularly in the realm of case design and modding to the 800D I'm working on now. Even though high performing SSD's have reached a much more affordable level, we are only able to save so much, as our hours have been drastically reduced, and as a result have had to focus on other aspects for now. As I said originally, to me SSD technology represents the future of personal computing and the next stage in it's rapid evolution. More importantly to us, it represents a piece of the future face of our company in the works, showing that we have what it takes to integrate the highest end components in our builds, and in turn offer those to our customers.

SSD's are revolutionary, there is no doubt about it. Personally, I do not have the money for these new blazing fast drives. However, after going on my friends computer and experiencing the insane quickness (like 2 second shut downs) of his SSD, there is no doubt that I want one.

And with Kingston making SSD drives, there is again no doubt in my mind that they are reliable, and of course, off the charts fast. In fact, I just got off the phone with Kingston Customer Support, and got my cross-shipping RMA done in less than 5 minutes. Immediate response, great support, lifetime warranty (for my RAM at least). Kingston's service ranks up there with the best. (Dare I say it, EVGA? )

In short, I would love to have a SSD in my system. I am currently running a WD 640GB Caviar Green, and while it does what a hard drive should do, with my current setup (measly, but it works lol), the next biggest jump would certainly be one of these out-of-this-world drives.

(Oh and I forgot to add, I saw Kingston's "will it break" SSD series. More people should search it up, I certainly was surprised at the durability of the drives - one survived a golf smash and still booted.)

I can overclock my processor, my graphics card, my memory and my motherboard, but I still can't go any faster than 7200 RPM. Only with an SSD will my EGVA gaming system show its true potential.

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i'd want an ssd because it has low seek time, fast read and write and will make my comp feel a lot faster than any other upgrade i currently need as my hard drive is the biggest bottle neck in my system

i currently only have 3x640gb 7200 rpm WD harddrive in raid 0 so i already have a large storage space, but i just need an ssd for a boot drive and my system would be a lot faster, load games faster and generally respond quicker.

less heat, lower power usage, and it won't matter if i shake the ssd.

though i do worry about the read write cycle lifetime of ssd.

Well.......... Basically SSD TECH. would really only benefit me in BENCHMARKING!  But, then again, it would also require less of my PSU, less demand on southbridge chip!  Assuming that the load would be less factoring in the RAID would be dissabeled and only one SATA PORT to operate! BTW im poor and this would be the only way i could have a SSD drive!  Damn bills!

How would a SSD affect my computing experience.

Application loading and even gaming load times would decrease by massive amounts. I am using some OEM 160 GB 2.5" 5400 rpm drive. First boot on this machine with my old Raptor 74gig x 3 RAID 0 setup was within <30 seconds. Now its on the part of 2 minutes. Firefox and IE takes god what seems like ages (In reality 5 / 6 seconds) to load. As the economy has gone to **** pretty much. Being the only income provider in this household has thus made a SSD rather unobtainable due to cost factor. Even plain Jane Office takes a 45 seconds to load. Photoshop good god everybody knows how slow it loads due to the millions of plugins. Add a slow loading OEM laptop harddrive. I might as well take a hammer to my fingers as for they heal faster than Photoshop will load on this PC. Do I hope I get the SSD, sure why not, bring a little joy into my own life. Will I, yea I doub it 5 vs 100k entries. I think I have better luck trying to catch a fly with some chopsticks. Karate Kid style.

I have had 3 hard drives fail on me and each time I have lost important information. Also now, I am stuck using this old 320gb hard drive which isn't too fast. I believe that getting a solid state disk would give me a better peace of mind because solid state disks are known to be more durable also I would love the boost in loading times. Also I barely use any of the space on the drive, maybe 30 gb at max so a space downgrade wouldn't affect me at all.

I currently have a Seagate Barracuda 1 TB HDD. It runs with my Intel i7-920 OCd at 3.3 GHz with my 6GB OCZ DDR3 and GTX 260. Although the transfer rate isn't bad with the Seagate, i feel like it could be faster! I do some pretty intensive work (aside from copious amounts of gaming!...) and having a faster drive containing my OS (win7 pro 64bit) would allow for more calculations and less power consumption! Running games at lightning speed is also a goal of mine... an SSD would definitely help me accomplish that! Plus one of my buddies has a comparable PC and is using a SSD and we are always competing to have the fastest, craziest PC we can build. I'd love a chance to be able to one - up - him! (all in good fun of course!)

I actually already have an SSD, but it'd be cool to get a second one!

My current SSD is an Intel first-generation MLC drive. It runs blazing fast; fast enough that the rest of my computer is way behind it.

One of my favorite features of it is that, when coupled with Windows 7, rebooting the computer is completely painless; I just click the restart button and I'm back into firefox 30 seconds later!

I also have been amazed by the speed of installs; after downloading installers, it takes all of 10-50 seconds to install whatever program it is that I downloaded.

I love my SSD; it makes everything go fast.

If I get a second SSD, I might try using some sort of RAID configuration, or just putting it in a different build.