Very quickly becoming a SSD convert and it's been less than a day.

[KJ3N]

First a little background.

I have a home-built PC in the shack running XP. I'm using this MB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182161) with 6G RAM, SATA optical drive, IDE 320G HD, USB internal multi-card reader, and dual monitors.

Now, it always took the MB a full minute after power on to go through the hardware and decide to (eventually) boot from the IDE drive. The entire time from power on to full XP desktop took 3.5-4 minutes.

On what amounted to nothing more than a whim, I decided to get this SSD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721107). It was on special from NewEgg; $80 with free shipping. I figured it was cheap enough that if things didn't work out, I wasn't out a lot.

I used free partition software that allowed me to copy the old IDE drive to the new SSD. Very easy process over all. I'd never heard of this software (http://www.aomeitech.com/aomei-partition-assistant.html) before last night, but it seemed to do what I needed without any adverse effects.

The difference is almost literally night & day. Boot time from power on to full XP desktop is now a stunning 1 minute and 15-20 seconds. Everything is just moving so fast, I can hardly believe it.

My next PC build is definitely going to have SSD in it. Just amazing...

[PA5COR]

Welcome in the modern world ;)

[K7SGJ]

I have several SSD I use. The first was a 64 and now I have several 128 and 256 drives. The only drag for my new HP, is that in the bios they have some shit that will only let you use certain drive capacities. I tried to set up the boot drive with a 256 SSD and the data drive with a 100GB drive and it wouldn't accept the 256 in the boot position. Looking around, I see that is an issue with a few of the bigger name computer makers. Bastids.

I'm sure there will be, if there isn't already, a workaround for it.

[KG4CGC]

First a little background.

I have a home-built PC in the shack running XP. I'm using this MB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182161) with 6G RAM, SATA optical drive, IDE 320G HD, USB internal multi-card reader, and dual monitors.

Now, it always took the MB a full minute after power on to go through the hardware and decide to (eventually) boot from the IDE drive. The entire time from power on to full XP desktop took 3.5-4 minutes.

On what amounted to nothing more than a whim, I decided to get this SSD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820721107). It was on special from NewEgg; $80 with free shipping. I figured it was cheap enough that if things didn't work out, I wasn't out a lot.

I used free partition software that allowed me to copy the old IDE drive to the new SSD. Very easy process over all. I'd never heard of this software (http://www.aomeitech.com/aomei-partition-assistant.html) before last night, but it seemed to do what I needed without any adverse effects.

The difference is almost literally night & day. Boot time from power on to full XP desktop is now a stunning 1 minute and 15-20 seconds. Everything is just moving so fast, I can hardly believe it.

My next PC build is definitely going to have SSD in it. Just amazing...

And if you run it out of Win7/8 it will be even faster. That's coming from me, an old XP die hard. If you like watching DVDs on the machine though, go with 7 because 8 wants an extra hundred $$$ for that particular feature.

[n6hcm]

the best thing about SSDs? not only does new hardware fly, but older hardware gets new life. i kept my last macbook for two more years than i would have otherwise because the SSD made it all bearable. i only moved on to a new system because i was doing larger data analyses and those were CPU-bound ...