SSD Drives - Do they make good upgrades?

SSD drives have hit the market and are becoming quite affordable. They offer incredible seek speeds over traditional HDD (hard disk drives), albeit at a more expensive price tag. SSD stands for Solid State Disk. These drives use memory modules to store data similar to the way a camera would store photographs on a memory stick. These drives have very little in the way of seek time unlike electromagnetic devices like hard disks. Therefore these drives access the information stored in blazingly fast times making Windows 7 or any other operating system an absolute dream to work with.

The other benefit of such a drive is that the thought of defragging your hard disk is no longer applicable. These drives must not be defragged, because that would limit the life span of the drive. It appears that the life span of these drives is way shorter than a typical HDD.

However SSD's are not for every one. The price tag is rather high and the storage capacity is nowhere near the affordable of say a 1TB. However not is all lost. SSD do make good upgrades to an old lagging computer. The secret is to install the operating system on the SSD drive and at the same time placing the mostly used programs on this device. You use a HDD to store photographs, documents, and movies.

Replacing an old SATA drive in a netbook caused the netbook to loads Windows XP (from BIOS to Windows desktop) in about 5 seconds. So the advice would be, purchase a 32 gig drive, reinstall your operating system on this drive, and enjoy the benefits of faster load times and write times.

Becareful - these drives are fairly new on the market, and stability might be an issue, so try not to store anything of value.

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