It is an encouraging sign but I have a feeling the reviewer was being charitable making those comments.
At the moment it looks as though Crucial and Corsair lead the market in SSD's, both respectable brands but neither are offering their products on the cheap.
If I were going to buy an SSD for my primary drive I wouldn't buy that. I'd have to have something that was worthwhile, not a compromise.
I don't always buy the best - although I try to - but what I do buy has to be quality.
And, quite frankly, that drive is not quality
Apart from that, it's only 32Gb which to my mind isn't big enough for even what I consider a basic install of Vista or Win 7.
My Media machine has a 74Gb Raptor as primary drive for the OS - Win Vista - and it only has a few other software apps installed - Winamp; MS Office 2007 basic; Photoshop; dbPowerAmp, the usual suspects
Yet the install totals 35Gb - too large for the featured SSD.
I recently changed to a pair of Velicoraptor 150Gb drives in a RAID 0 and that will probably be the last mechanical drives(s) I use as a primary hard disk, assuming they last me at least a couple of years.
Like Ian, 2011/2012 will be the year I consider using SSD's and hopefully prices will be more competitive then.
If money was no object however, I'd buy a pair of SSD's and RAID them right now
But money
is an object atm unfortunately
Finally, HDD noise.
I've used a pair of Western Digital 10,000 rpm disks for a RAID 0 setup in all of their incarnations.
The first pair of 34Gb each were possibly the noisest hard disks I've ever heard.
The second pair of 74Gb each were quieter but still a helluva lot noisier than their 7200rpm Samsung, Seagate & Hitachi counterparts.
The third pair of 150Gb each - in use now - are as quiet as any other quality mechanical hard disk. In fact, I can't hear them.
But still not as quiet as an SSD eh?
For me, noise would not be the reason for an SSD purchase - speed would be the reason.
