Samsung 840s are a really nice drive. The 250GB one is on sale until 10:00 pst today
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I put SSDs in all of my builds, they are lightyears faster than mechanical platters. Usually price/performance wise a small/medium ssd and a large hdd for storage is the way to go. Although that's not feasible with all laptops.