Taskmaster: I'm not disputing the sustained read/write speeds, we all know they are slower than conventional HD's (though only by about 25% in some cases). However, your system drive rarely streams large chunks of contiguous data. It spends most of its time seeking back and forth across the platters as it reads tiny files or thrashes the heads about whilst (it tries) accessing 2 or 3 files at the same time.
Most people have 1 HD in their PC. Of the people that have 2 or more, some of those still have the Windows page file on the C: drive.
Having Windows (or your other favourite OS of choice) on a solid state drive and page/swap file on conventional HD will give you an immense speed boost.
Windows boot times... and here I mean the time from power-on to having a fully usable desktop... get slashed in half (or further still, depensing on the number of startup programs you have).
I would give my left arm for a 64GB solid state drive, just for the speed increase, let alone the reliability, power consumption and noise reduction.
Most people have 1 HD in their PC. Of the people that have 2 or more, some of those still have the Windows page file on the C: drive.
Having Windows (or your other favourite OS of choice) on a solid state drive and page/swap file on conventional HD will give you an immense speed boost.
Windows boot times... and here I mean the time from power-on to having a fully usable desktop... get slashed in half (or further still, depensing on the number of startup programs you have).
I would give my left arm for a 64GB solid state drive, just for the speed increase, let alone the reliability, power consumption and noise reduction.