Good tip for speeding up your computer...

[RWebb]

Airbooks with SSDs are amazingly fast - I expect the days of the hard drive are finally numbered, even in desktops. And I bet Apple starts off the trend in desktops...

[Brando]

Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts

[...] Anyways, I decided to try speeding up my computer by buying a solid state drive and using it for common access items / files. Works great. I plugged it in as an extra drive and then I moved my Outlook / Exchange offline folder there, my Google Desktop indexes, and my page file. The computer feels about 2-3 times faster now with no downsides. [...]

I just setup a 96GB Kingston SSD as my primary disk on my desktop. Just remember, unlike HDDs, if the SSD fails the data is mostly likely lost. On a normal HDD at least the data can be recovered by physical means...

Best to pair a SSD and a physical drive in a virtual mirror raid (Win 7 lets you do this). That way you have the speed advantage of the SSD and the redundancy of a HDD.

[widebody911]

At work I have 150+ blade servers with SSD's. For most operations, a spinny drive can't touch 'em.

[Halm]

Originally Posted by widebody911

At work I have 150+ blade servers with SSD's. For most operations, a spinny drive can't touch 'em.

Test results I saw somewhere said that for sequential reads they were much faster but about the same for random access. So I guess it depends on what you are doing.

That said, I agree they are the future and I am simply waiting for another price drop and I'll move my laptop over.