I ave been using SSD's for about a year now, wow, they are great. The prices have dropped a lot lately as well, a 128GB SSD is about $100 now. I just put a 256GB SSD into a otherwise nice laptop whose hard drive crapped out. Major performance improvement.
Don't be put off by the seemingly small capacity compared to standard rotating media drives. You'll find that 128GB or 256GB will hold your OS, apps, and a pretty good chunk of data just fine, unless you are doing a lot of "large file apps" like video or high megapixel photos. Just add a 1 or 2TB rotating media drive for those sort of files.
The performance improvement increment is amazing. The very high speed data transfer rates plus the near-zero seek time -- no rotational latency - address the single largest I/O bottleneck in typical computers.
Now, I have a limited sample, I have used only a half-dozen drives so far, but as for reliability, I have not experienced a single failure yet. I am told they "wear" but in practical use I have not seen this issue so far.
Recommended!
Don't be put off by the seemingly small capacity compared to standard rotating media drives. You'll find that 128GB or 256GB will hold your OS, apps, and a pretty good chunk of data just fine, unless you are doing a lot of "large file apps" like video or high megapixel photos. Just add a 1 or 2TB rotating media drive for those sort of files.
The performance improvement increment is amazing. The very high speed data transfer rates plus the near-zero seek time -- no rotational latency - address the single largest I/O bottleneck in typical computers.
Now, I have a limited sample, I have used only a half-dozen drives so far, but as for reliability, I have not experienced a single failure yet. I am told they "wear" but in practical use I have not seen this issue so far.
Recommended!
I remember those.....
