While they wont offer comparable space as regular drives at around the same price per GB, they utterly annihilate standard hard drives in almost all performance tests.
And its not by a little. Its by a whole shit load.
These are not meant to replace existing drives. They are meant to augment an existing set of regular hard drives. The SSD's act as your main OS hard drive(s) and store as many applications that can fit. Your standard data, such as music, videos, and pictures, get stored on regular hard drives. Games you play most often get loaded on the SSD, while others that do not benefit much from the SSD's performance stay on your standard drive.
The device is aimed at gamers and TV watchers, generating a 3D image with use of a pair of 0.7-inch OLED panels, which each display separate images, doing away with the ghost imagery that often comes along with 3D displays.
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Oh wow.. that's SO much more cost effective than...
THIS...
http://www.a-power.com/product-8191-290-1
500GB 2.5" drive for $120 CANADIAN... Which is around $108.
You could buy TWO, put on in a drive case and use the spare to regularly do backups.
You fail to see the point for SSD's.
While they wont offer comparable space as regular drives at around the same price per GB, they utterly annihilate standard hard drives in almost all performance tests.
And its not by a little. Its by a whole shit load.
These are not meant to replace existing drives. They are meant to augment an existing set of regular hard drives. The SSD's act as your main OS hard drive(s) and store as many applications that can fit. Your standard data, such as music, videos, and pictures, get stored on regular hard drives. Games you play most often get loaded on the SSD, while others that do not benefit much from the SSD's performance stay on your standard drive.