Agreed, SSD’s have been the biggest practical performance boost that PC’s have seen in a long time. With all the other components having got faster and better year on year, standard HDD have pretty much become the performance bottleneck. As for reliability, it is massively better with the current generation of SSD’s (probably on par with or better than HDD for average desktop use).
Mm, delicious contradictions…
Sigh, I guess I just have to buy myself an SSD and decide for myself. I’ve been putting it off since I really don’t need one, loading time isn’t an issue and the SSD’s are so small that not everything would fit anyway, only the OS basically. My PC is on 24/7 :l
It isn’t that you need it. You get used to the (sudden) snappiness of the PC. When you go back to your other PC, with equal CPU, equal GPU, equal RAM, but running on an HDD, it feels sluggish. All those 1-2s delays you encounter troughout the day, will from now on be unforgivable. Buying an SSD will spoil you forever.
Can’t really agree. Well I’m patient.
If you have the money, to SSDs and replace them if they fail ok.
However reinstalling EVERYTHING is a tedious day of work…
That’s why I make a system image of my 60GB SSD 2-3 times a month to my HDD so if the SSD ever fails, I have an exact copy on hand 
Tried this once, didn’t work really, but I dont remember specifics
gotta try again.
though a 60GB file is of course annoying, apart from making it…
Annoying making it? I have the built in system image creator set to run weekly.
And a 60GB file isn’t that much on my 2TB 7200RPM HDD ;D
IT’S ALIIIIIIIIVE!!! And nothing important is lost!!!
Okay, ASUS can have my babies. Okay, they were slow (3-4 weeks), BUT:
- Bought computer in Sweden, had it repaired in Japan.
- They ordered parts (motherboard + charger) from Europe since it’s not a model sold in Japan, which is why it took so long time in the first place.
- Got an L connector on my power block this time. I had a straight connector last time which is what broke the charger pin in the first place.
- Decent call center. Most of the time they had an English speaking person there. xd Most of the time. xD
- THEY LISTENED. “Please don’t erase the hard drive!” “Okay, we’ll skip the hard drive test then, no problem.”
- Shipping like a pro. Computer got picked up from my home, packaged in a super special box for computers, and then delivered back to me the same way. Better packaging than when I bought it! >_>
- New battery.
- AND IT WAS ALL FREE! Warranty covered it all, probably since it’s a very common problem with this computer model. Hopefully it won’t happen again with the new motherboard and charger (or happen before the warranty runs out xD).
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All my programming is safe on Dropbox now since they didn’t erase the hard drive! Now I just need to pick up a new external one in Akiba!
What exactly was wrong with your laptop?
A metal pin inside the charger socket came off and got stuck in the charger --> impossible to charge the laptop since one of the connectors isn’t touching. Said charger socket is attached to the motherboard. The connector had been designed by a 3-year-old. The metal pin about 1mm thick, but gets thinner to around 0.5mm just where it’s attached to the laptop. It didn’t even break off, the soldering just came off by putting and pulling out the charger. The charger cable was also a straight one, not an L shaped one, so it moves around even more. The problem is really common with my computer model, and there’s a mile long thread on the ASUS forums about this problem.
Since the only real problem was that I couldn’t charge the battery, I had battery time to back up everything to my external hard drive. Which broke. Since ASUS specifically said that they would have to format the internal hard drive for testing I thought all hope was gone.
So everything worked out fine in the end
So that’s the power of warranty? searching my ASUS card
Shock and awe! =D
The question is: have you started performing backups yet?
Meh, no. Why would I? Everybody knows a computer can’t break TWICE in a short time, right?
Yes, I have backed up everything I really need online, but I’ll need a new external harddrive before I start backing up bigger files. Not that I have many left, everything was on my external hard drive. I’m just glad I didn’t lose my programming for the last 10 months… xd We’ll see if I can squeeze some money out of the store in Sweden when I get back for the hard drive… It should at least have 1 year of warranty, right? I’ll probably make it within 2 or 3 days of that time limit. =D Just need to find the receipt in Sweden first, but I actually keep track of those things.