Saturday, August 27, 2011

Windows 7 + SSD = Better Than New

Lately my friend Chinchih was upgrading her laptop to Windows 7 (from XP). I suggested her to use this chance to upgrade her hard drive to SSD. Yes, the 512G SSD is still pricy, but from experience (my Mac has it) I knew it would be worth it. (I was so confident that I even offered to pay her SSD if she was not satisfied.) Well, she did some duo diligence, made sure her laptop could work with the SSD she bought, then made the jump. Now she's very happy with her "new" laptop. (She has a Dell XPS M1330, a classic among Dell laptops.) So if you want a laptop upgrade but really like your current laptop, consider the SSD option. It may be the best laptop upgrade you get.

P.S. I was usually not IT savvy, however, in my previous job I noticed all our customers were using SSD in their servers. I asked our super support Dmitry if it really made a difference. He told me it was "day and night". That convinced me. He also told me since data were read from the SSD cells in parallel, a larger SSD may actually achieve better performance than a smaller SSD.

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