Need advice for a new cruncher

[Slicker]

The SSD isn't really better in terms of noticeable improvement of crunching output. But it is immune to mechanical failure since it doesn't have any moving parts. And its COOL

I finally broke down and put an SSD into my new laptop. I had to reboot my desktop (without SSD) several times yesterday and I have to say, it took forever to boot up in comparison. It isn't slow either. The desktop has high-end drives in a raid config for speed. But, the SSD blows it away. If you aren't storing music or videos on it, you can probably get by with only an SSD. Otherwise, using an SSD for boot and applications and a HDD for data is probably the way to go. The SSD cost per gigabyte is still too high to store everything on them. Unless you had a rich uncle who left you a fortune. (Mine are all poor.)

[Fire$torm]

@c303a: Thanks. And I'm in the same boat!

@Z: True enough though they are still less noisy then Radeon GPU fans...

@Slicker: I feel ya. As often as I reboot my desktop, an SSD would save me a LOT of time. One of these days I'll move fully into the 21st Century.