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thechosenone
Mar 21, 2009
So since I don't have any pressing need for one, I figure that before I buy an SSD, I should continue to wait? They seem poised to gain yet more speed, capacity, and become cheaper in the coming year? It seems like they have hardly reached their maturity point yet, unlike tapes and hard discs.

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thechosenone
Mar 21, 2009
So guess that just leaves prices then. Should I wait, since I hear earlier on this page that they are planning to ramp up production, for a lower price? I imagine I will adore the speed up, and I don't think I actually need that much space (like I figure 250 GB would do), but I would kind of like to wait until SSDs become the default, so I can just grab something at the lenovo outlet without having to think about it.

Though I guess at this point, if one were to build their own PC, that they would be best off just getting an SSD while their at it, due to its major quality of life improvements. I know SSDs help with booting/rebooting comptuers, and with loading large amounts of data with video games, but do they help with anything that isn't as obvious? Like, opening programs must be faster, and copying large amounts of data from one place to another will likely be quicker, but is there anything I might not be thinking about?

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