SSD pricing is slowly dropping to a reasonable price point that i argue everyone should at least have put their OS boot drive as an SSD and use traditional mechanical hard drives for large file and media storage.
For less than
US$60, you can easily get a
ADATA Premier SP550 240GB SATA-III SSD that has decent read and write speed that would improve performance on ANY desktop or laptop systems running on traditional mechanical hard drive by a magnitude of 2x-4x. Laptop users would see an even larger jump in performance gains if their existing 2.5″ hard drive is only running at 5,400rpm.
SSDs on SATAII and SATA-III vs Traditional hard drive speed. Graph credits to TomsHardware.
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