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Originally Posted by Rathji
Solid State is up to 8 times faster, uses less power. Good upgrade for 50 bucks. Personally, I am more concerned about the lower number of total read/writes before the drive craters. Although with a 2-3 year lifetime on a laptop like this you probably wont be using it long enough to have to deal with that.
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That's true for random reads, which is what 90% of everyday stuff is, but for larger files and sequential access (like movies) current hard drives are just as fast or faster.
Solid state is the wave of the future, but there are still hurdles before they will be come a true replacement for all applications. But with the way they have come on like gangbusters the past year, it may only be a few more years before rotational platters are obsolete.
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