Solid state drives: holy crap!!!
Friday, November 6th, 2009I’ve always been an advocate of investing in faster hard drives. Typically, when someone is looking for a new laptop and starts talking about how they want a faster processor or more RAM or whatever, I’m the first person to say that they should go for the 7200 hard drive upgrades if available because few things will result in as noticeable an increase in speed as upgrading the system’s biggest bottleneck. All my HD’s on my home computer are 10k and I’d never go back. But I never had a chance to look at a system with a solid state drive until now.
And good God, the difference is profound! Everything the system does, it does noticeably faster. Of course it boots much faster, installs applications and updates faster, and shuts down faster. But even innocuous, not terribly demanding things like opening the control panel or launching Internet Explorer… they feel almost instantaneous.
If you’re looking for a new laptop anytime soon and you take speed very seriously, save on the processor and get a SSD drive. You won’t regret it.