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Originally Posted by azasadny
Can you put in an SSD instead of a spinning disk?
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Sure, so long as the SSD interface matches the one of the spinning disk you're replacing. Most SSDs are some variant of SATA; they're backward-compatible.
The "buy a 7200 RPM drive" was great advice; huge difference in speed over a 5400RPM drive.
If you need the performance of SSD with the capacity of a "real" hard drive, Seagate Momentus XT drives are very interesting; hybrid SSD and fast, large disk. Lot of other folks starting to copy the idea.
You end up with a decent amount (32MB) of cache, and an 8GB SSD drive sitting between the cache and a large amount of disk spinning @ 7200 RPM.
Available in 500 or 750GB sizes - and surprisingly cheap.
Momentus XT Hybrid Drive | Seagate