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[jak3676]

They aren't that bad anymore. Consider that for multiboxing WoW you can get all you need to in a 32GB drive if you either open from the same .exe or symlink. A cheap 32GB SSD is just about $100 and a "good" 32GB drive is only $120. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820609392 64GB drives are under $200 and 120GB drives are under $300.

Sure if you want to fit your entire network storage into flash memory, you're going to go bankrupt. But the cost that most of would need isn't that bad (i.e. we spend more on 2 months of multiboxing WoW, or a CPU upgrade or a GPU upgrade or 12GB of DDR3...)

[Bovidae]

They aren't that bad anymore. Consider that for multiboxing WoW you can get all you need to in a 32GB drive if you either open from the same .exe or symlink. A cheap 32GB SSD is just about $100 and a "good" 32GB drive is only $120. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820609392 64GB drives are under $200 and 120GB drives are under $300.

Sure if you want to fit your entire network storage into flash memory, you're going to go bankrupt. But the cost that most of would need isn't that bad (i.e. we spend more on 2 months of multiboxing WoW, or a CPU upgrade or a GPU upgrade or 12GB of DDR3...)

^THIS

The newest offerings from OCZ and the like are reasonable enough for mid-level users who do not want terabytes of flash storage. Considering write limitations (that affect lifespan) on these products, I would only recommend using this type of storage for primarily read-only files i.e. WOW\DATA. Not WOW\WTF, not the OS, not temporary internet files, thats what Raptors are for.

I'm perfectly happy with my WD Caviar 1tb for movies, pictures and music. It reads fast enough for those purposes