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I remember reading about that and thinking at the time, that I could just add a 32GB SSD as a boot and system drive to my existing system to get a similar or even better performance boost for about £50-£60.
Still, I suppose for someone building a system from scratch or wanting to upgrade to a larger drive on an existing system, it isn't a bad idea.
I'm still inclined to look forward to the price of SSDs continuing to come down and sizes go up.
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That wouldn't work on a laptop though, would it, and these are 2.5" devices.
The limitation with most SSDs is that they use a SATA interface, which can be the bottleneck. The ones that work over PCI-e are real screamers apparently, not that I can afford to find out for myself.
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Rhakios
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| nelz wrote: | That wouldn't work on a laptop though, would it, and these are 2.5" devices.
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<looking for where I said it would>
In any event, all the pure SSDs I've seen have been 2.5", though some come with adaptor brackets. Of course, the benefit of adding a proper SSD to a laptop isn't only speed, but also robustness.
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<Looking for where I said you said it would>
Indeed, I mourn the passing of the small, SSD-equipped netbook.
I'd still like to try four of those PCI-e SSDs in a RAID6 array 
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| nelz wrote: |
Indeed, I mourn the passing of the small, SSD-equipped netbook.
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I've put an SSD in my MSI U90 Wind, it's not one of the fastest, but it was reasonably priced and at least now it doesn't hum or give a weird gyro feeling when you move it around. Indeed, although it isn't one of the fastest SSDs available, it's still faster than the drive than was previously installed.
I don't know what it is about the U90, but I find it a very friendly machine.
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