glad you got the ssd up and running smoothly, enjoy the speed, don't get  speeding ticket lol

Thanks you, yes it is so quick now 

I knew you would love it Freddy 

I paid £125 for mine, even though they have dropped in price to £90 I still feel it was worth what I paid, I can't think of anything that you could get for that kind of money that would improve your PC as much as an SSD.

Good choice 

Yeah I love it, was up till 4pm playing with stuff, it's like a new machine.

Even if I upgraded the MB and CPU I don't think it would have such an impact due to the reliance on drives.

Money well spent I agree 

QuoteMoney well spent I agree  Cool

I'll third that notion

I spent around $240us on my drive when it first came out and it is only 40GB. I still feel it was money well spent. I had it for a while now, maybe I will get a bigger one one day 

http://www.ebuyer.com/268244-ocz-120gb-agility-3-ssd-agt3-25sat3-120g-agt3-25sat3-120g

As of this post the price has gone to £82.99

Steady, at this rate Snowy will be getting one next.

I say go for it! Best ~80 quid you can spend, I think.

  Just saw 256 Gb drives going for $239,  Again I'm making a mess out of my drives and should do some clean up.  The prices are real nice but I already spent that money and it's time to try to do a little saving.  With sata 3 I need a new motherboard, mem, graphics ect to get the best performance out of them.
Carl2

As a  rule the SATA 3 drives are quicker on SATA 2 motherboards than SATA 2 SSD.s, I'm getting a WEI of 7.8 out of a SATA 3 SSD on a SATA 2 mobo.

Good that the prices are still coming down 

  Just came across this, SSD prices are falling, LINK
http://news.softpedia.com/news/SSD-Prices-Fall-Just-as-Predicted-OCZ-Petrol-Already-at-0-5-EUR-per-GB-273190.shtml
Still good news although most people already have one,  Maybe the manufactures will put them into computers some day.
Carl2

Most laptops have the option of an SSD these days. Still bumps the price of a laptop by £100 or so. Not seeing the price drop of SSDs yet.

Much as I would love to upgrade to an SSD, on my rig it's a pain the derriere.
My mobo is designed for a single width graphics card, so with my double width card it obscures 2 X SATA plugs. Meaning I have no spare places to plug any more drives in. I'm also having problems with my DVD (IDE) drive. It is failing and being temperamental.
My options are:- modify the graphics card so the plugs will fit or replace all my drives (lose 3 HDD, add 1 HDD + 1 SSD + 1 DVD) or replace mobo (inc processor and memory, basically a new machine).

I'm still looking at the cheap option of modifing the graphics card. It's all very close. I think I can remove some plastic and have enough room to the heat pipes with a right angle SATA lead.

As usual, life is never easy and the devil is in the details.

  I've got two desktops, put SSD's in both, really like the difference.  I just looked at an ad from HP for a desktop and it lets you switch to a 160 Gb SSD for $300.  Newegg has some computers but they are sold without options and all but the most expensive will not have SSD's.  I'm limited to Sata 2 because of the mb right now and don't want to get into the change mb, memory and why not the CPU and the graphics card.  I'd rather wait and see the price drop for another computer when Win 8 comes out.
Carl2

I see OCZ have released a cheaper range of SSD, the specs look good just a little slower than the Agility range but I doubt it would be noticeable in Windows, looks pretty good to me for the money.

The next build I do will probably have one of them in it.


http://www.ebuyer.com/278646-ocz-120gb-solid-ssd-sld3-25sat3-120g

This one just came to me in an email too, haven't looked at it really, but thought I would drop it in :

http://www.saverstore.com/product/20330749/OCZ-Vertex-Plus-Series---Solid-state-drive---240-GB---internal---25---SATA-300---buffer