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Originally Posted by photon
The huge advantage from SSDs for most types of computing isn't necessarily from the raw throughput, but from the seek times.. a normal drive is in the >10ms range, while for SSD's it's <1ms. So to load all those 100's if little files the OS needs to run, it takes hundredths of seconds rather than seconds.
And maxing out the throughput of the SATA interface won't hurt either, the drive in it probably doesn't even do that. Laptop drives are usually slower anyway.
I haven't done it yet, but I will soon, I think the impact of an SSD on a laptop is even greater than a desktop.
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Yeah that's what I was thinking too, but I kept wondering if any of that would matter if I wasn't running at 3 GB/s. I didn't even think about my current drive probably not capping out anyway...
This is good news. After playing with the new MB Air with its standard SSD (man was it ever fast) last weekend, this thing has been on my mind all week.