SSDs... any good?

[timholyoake]

I am thinking of upgrading to a Solid State Drive for windows 7 and FSX. are these things as fast as they say they are?
I have a bottle neck with my HDDs at the mo, and feel that this is probably the way to go...

Processor 7.3
RAM 7.5
Graphics 6.9
Game Graphics 6.9
Primary HD 5.9

[Chris Sykes]

if you do go for SSD, which are vastly quicker than HDD, then you will deffinatly need one with TRIM support... This will extend the life of them vastly over ones without TRIM...

I have not used SSD's (10,000 RPM HDD's in my PC) but my work coluegee has a Laptop that has SSD disk and its super quick at loading windows and programs, POST check is still good old slowness...

[Vancouver]

Just remember never to defrag a SSD. I don't know why or what harm may result but there you are, the advice from experts. Personally I will wait until they come waaaaay down in price and up in capacity.

[jonesey2k]

SSD have a finite number of write cycles so defragging is a surefire way of killing your drive. Modern drives have software that makes sure each sector gets used evenly.