I was hoping they'd be nearer 50p / GB by now.

I really would like a 240-256GB one but...

Nice to see there is a fair range of 2.5 - 3.5 mounting kits.

http://www.ebuyer.com/search?page=1&sort=relevancy&limit=10&q=25+mount&filtercat=386

Some of the drives come with the 2.5 - 3.5 mounting kits I noticed.

This one does, it's the one that caught my eye, people say in the reviews that it came with the kit.   

http://www.ebuyer.com/268693-corsair-120gb-force-3-ssd-cssd-f120gb3-bk-cssd-f120gb3-bk

I've never bought anything from ebuyer are they any good ?

I like them, have spent quite a few quid with them, of course shop around but they do have good prices too.

What I like about eBuyer is they only list stocked items.

What I don't like is they're a bit sneaky with the postage, always defaults to £10 but there are cheaper options and deals.

Most are pretty much of a muchness. Beware sites with no stock as they often order it then sent it to you.

Here in the States, the price of solid state drives is getting near to the "dollar per Gig" mark, which is very nearly affordable. If I can ever save the money to get both a 60GB drive and Windows 7 Pro (I like having more control over my computer than Home Premium affords), then I'll probably do so. And then spend the next week getting everything back to the way I like things.

W7 is nice Dave, there are rumours that W8 will be out late 2012.  I like my machine enough at the moment to wait that long before doing an upgrade, I just hope W8 is going to be as good as W7 has been.

What kind of power connectors do SSD's use ?  Are they like the new (not IDE)  HD/SATA ones ?

Yes its all SATA the data cable and power connecter.

When I get one it will be SATA 3 even though my motherboard doesn't support 3, the next PC will and the SATA 3 drives are backward compatible with SATA 2 so there shouldn't be any problems.

But I also know these SSD drive installation and Windows install don't always go to plan, and although all the SATA 3 drives are backwards compatible some are more compatible than others.

So I'm ready for the challenge should it arise.

Good to know thanks 

Quote from: DaveMorton on September 21, 2011, 23:25:16 PM
Here in the States, the price of solid state drives is getting near to the "dollar per Gig" mark, which is very nearly affordable. If I can ever save the money to get both a 60GB drive and Windows 7 Pro (I like having more control over my computer than Home Premium affords), then I'll probably do so. And then spend the next week getting everything back to the way I like things.

LOL - Looking back on this post, it's like a self-fulfilling prophesy. I got my new 60GB SSD and Windows 7 Pro yesterday (along with a 4GB RAM upgrade), and I'm just about to shut off my box and start upgrading. Wish me luck, Gents!

Grats 


Good luck !

Sounds good, the new bits I mean 

Good luck with the install, don't forget to put in the chip set driver, one of the first things I would recommend doing after the Windows install.

But you probably know that 

I shall be building my first SSD system soon for my Dad. He's got more money to burn than me. 

Well, the major part is completed, and I'm back online with my desktop.

I had some relatively minor issues, such as no SATA cable being supplied with the new drive (it's a 2.5" drive for laptops, so I should have expected it), and one of my new RAM sticks was bad out of the box, but these were minor. I'll RMA the memory in a bit, once Windows is done installing all 163 updates.

Oh, BTW. Boot time right now? 25 seconds, from hitting the power, to seeing the last hourglass go away. The BIOS screen flashes by too fast to see.

What a pain getting a dead stick of RAM, I know you don't sound to bothered about it Dave but to get all the bits and then find something not working I find very annoying