I run off of two comps, one with a 128GB Crucial M4 SSD, and another with a 256 Intel SSD.
I used to run a 512GB Crucial M4 instead of the 256 Intel, but I destroyed the drive FOUR TIMES (4 drives x $600 = $2400 in hardware) in 6 months and eventually gave up and switched to the smaller Intel drive.
SSD is phenomenal, but is unstable in large sizes. I backup my drives regularly, at least once a month.
edit: As for "How much faster...?"
If you go SSD you might as well upgrade to 8gb of RAM. Once you do both of those, you are running a crack-machine that is absolutely untouchable as far as speed goes. I swear, once you go SSD you don't go back.
There are all kinds of things you need to do to your SSD once you install it, like removing the auto-Defrag settings and lowering your refresh rate. Silverfish Streaming Video (Netflix) crashes on my machine because of this I think. I experience "more then a few" crashes while running Netflix and multiple open browsers and programs on 2 screens.
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Last edited by Omgoozle; 04-27-2012 at 06:51 PM.
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