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My experience
stiphy 24th Sep 2009
I upgraded my system using an OCZ Vertex SSD about 2 months ago. I paid $300 for 120GB at Microcenter, enough for my system disk. I am a developer who spends all day in Visual Studio 2008.

I would NEVER EVER go back to a hard drive as my system disk. This has been the single biggest upgrade I've ever done on my PC. I have a Dell D820 Core2 Duo and have no need to upgrade it now.

I first imaged my hard drive to my SSD for an apples to apples comparison. I was running Vista which grinds away at disks constantly. No more grinding....literally (no sound) but also functionally (it got data so much quicker that disk access was cut down dramatically). The system felt snappy again, I had been running this image since Vista came out to devs (November 2006) so it was pretty junked up as Windows Installs go. Without the SSD it was becoming painful to work, with the SSD the system was responsive, snappy, the difference was amazing.

A few weeks later I did a fresh install of Windows 7 (I have MSDN) onto the SSD and this system runs amazingly fast and smooth. I am not sure how much of this is Win7 and how much is my SSD but seeing how much it boosted Vista I'm going to imagine a large part of my satisfaction is with running the SSD. I am far more productive and it was seriously the best $300 I have ever spent on a computer upgrade.

That said, I did a lot of reading before I jumped. Anandtech has a great article about SSD's particularly in regards to a stuttering problem that earlier units had that is a must read if you are considering a non-Intel version. The only non-intel version I'd recommend at this time is the OCZ Vertex. You can read more about my experience on my blog at http://www.blendblog.net which also links to the Anandtech article.

Hope this helps...

Sean



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