SSD drives - I'm thrilled!

[gorch]

In the attempt to build on my little home studio, I had updated my 2-3 year old notebook to Windows 7 from XP. Although collecting drivers after OS update have been a mess again, the overall result was darn good. Then I realized that Windows7 does not make use of more then one core of its own, I switched on the modus. Wow! That's been quite an afterburner.

The old hard drive sure wasn't suitable for future work, just at the time a colleague reported he's been building a PC to his needs adding a SSD drive instead of classic hard drive. Since he said he'd never want to turn it back, I decided to further invest in the issue.

Man, I will never want to have a classic hard drive in one of my computers. The invest wasn't cheap, but cheaper than buying a new notebook that would come with equipment I wouldn't like.

SSDs seriously speed up your computer. Programs start immediately and you don't hear that common scratching any more.

Anyone else happy with these loving-full drives?

[srvwannab]

My son went and bought the highest end Macbook Pro he could buy- fastest processor, most RAM, etc. and I bought a Macbook Air with less than 1/2 of the specs. Unlike the my son's Macbook Pro, which has a traditional hard drive, the Macbook Air has memory modules directly on the logic board of the computer. For virtually everything I do, my computer is way faster than his.

With that said, I know there are certain tasks that his computer would be faster than mine at.

So, in short, I'm a huge fan of SSD drives. I can't wait for them to make the technology to get cheap enough to make spinning HD's obsolete.

[cynic]

Another Macbook Air user here, it's the best example of instant-on computing I've seen.

[unfun75]

My Macbook Pro has a 500gb SSD. Yes, 500gb. 4gb of DDR3 1333mhz RAM. i7 CPU. Umm, its fast. Like shut down/start up in less than 3 seconds fast.

Have no idea how much it cost since its my work computer. I'm guessing 3000.

I need to get a Display Port Mini to HDMI cable so I can hook it up to my HDTV.

[tobereeno]

I'm also an SSD drive lover. While my Macbook Air 11" is supposedly underpowered, it's only with extremely intensive calculations (statistics software and graphing), and 1080p video files driving an HD television, that it begins to show its limits. The SSD makes up most of the speed improvements.

The high price of SSD drives in more powerful computers has kept me from upgrading my iMac. When the price comes down a bit, I'll get an iMac with an SSD main system drive, and a big traditional drive for media storage. Need to find out how Pro Tools likes/does not like SSDs.

[jaberwock]

I have an 80 GB SSD on my mac Pro which runs the O.S. and software applications, boot up time is slightly faster, but I have two 1 TB drives running for storage, and backup which probably take most of the time; my software( Autocad, sketchup, Photoshop, and Logic pro ) run faster but not dramatically so, to be honest I was hoping for a more noticeable increase in speed, but it may be down to the CPU intensive software I use.

Hope this helps Jaberwock

[Armitage]

I use a SSD for my Windows C: drive, it's where I install all my programs, "My Documents" all go on a huge regular hard drive.