The lifespan of an SSD really isn't an issue for most home users. At 5,000 write cycles for an 80GB SSD, in a perfect use, it will accept 400,000 GB of writes or 219 GB of writes a day for 5 years. Even taking the write amplification factor, which TRIM partly mitigates, into consideration, you should still be able to write 100 GB a day (20 GB more than capacity) for five years before failure.

To lose your SSD to wear and tear, you would have to fill up your SSD every single day for five years! Wear and tear is not a real problem.

Not sure where i've sourced it but prices are gonna fall to USD 1/gb by end of this year.

This is more than moores law. It's kinda like an explosion. Lightspeed may hit the market way slower, because when enterprise ssd becomes consumer grade = 500mb+ read/write. okay off topic.

Anyway to the person who says let it hit RM 100-200. I'd say when it hit 1gb/dollar, it is a good time to buy. Think of it as PC on steroid.

You've upgraded every single component on your pc, and want it faster. You're willing to spend thousands on cpu. Another thousand on Mobo+Ram combo. Hey, why not add another thousand and put those games and photoshop on steroid ?

Still can't decide if it is worth it to get SSD now :S

I hope the intel gen 3 really affects the price of the older ones nicely.

People have to start understand that SSD uses NAND and thus it might show a big difference in benchmarks (just like RAM), real world performance is not that noticeable. Do you notice a big difference running DDR3-1333 and DDR3-2000? The answer is "NO", you get good benchmark scores but you don't literally feel it. This is because most of the time, Windows apps and games tends to read multiple small files. If you're talking about reading huge files then yes, the difference is more substantial. RAID-0 would make things a bit faster but not much. Again, it looks good in benchmarks but in real world computing, the difference is minimal. I would say 1-2 secs faster in certain tasks.

What makes the SSD fast is the random access time and if you notice, all SSD's have 0.x ms so they are all more or less the same. Another problem is we have tons of people that does not own an SSD but after reading around the Internet, they start advicing and giving the wrong information. I am one of the early users of SSD and I can tell you that 1 x SSD would be ideal. RAID-0 SSD is only if you have extra cash and don't know what to spend on

U has the same side as me. I spend 10k on my dekstop after 2 years it is slower than a 3k com.
Now i use 4k to upgrade my PC to get super high end wohoo compare to last time 10k

From HDD to SSD, it's like breathing new life into an old machine. From entry level SSD to SATA 6.0gbps SSD, be prepared to be underwhelmed. As always, I recommend investing in capacity than in performance. More solid state capacity will always be useful. More performance is highly situational and of dubious value. Do you really need 550MB/s read/write for your web browsing? Or to launch a game that spends most of its time waiting on the CPU?

But it has gotten better. A year ago, it was about RM10/GB. Today, Intel's G3 can hit RM6/GB and we even have cheaper SSDs that goes for below RM5/GB.

The question here, what is your selling point?

but read speed up to 280mb/s
y mine just get 143mb/s