SSD into desktop speed up?

[Pondboy]

Has anyone fitted an SSD into their desktop to run Windows on, and did it make a significant difference to load and other operational speeds?

I'm thinking the 60GB units are looking like good xmas pressy suggestions, but would like to know if its worth the trouble first.

Cheers PB

 

[boredrider]

SSDs

Yes and yes. Fitted a couple to Dell Optiplex base units, together with 2 X 1Tb drives in a hardware Raid 1 config. With Windows 7 the fastest boot I've achieved is 18 secs to desktop. Applications run instantly. A really good upgrade IMHO.

 

[Pondboy]

BR,

Thanks for the info. Looks like a letter to Santa is required. Want to speed up win7 & Adobe Elements + dreamweaver, which it sounds like it would do. Have q fairly hefty desktop already, just fancy a bit more disk access oomf. PB

 

[alistairl]

Not SSD, but I've got a 10k rpm boot drive in my Optiplex and the performance difference with that is really noticable. SSD is orders of magnitude better.

With the apps you use, as BR describes you should ideally split over several drives, with swap file, programs etc on different drives. Also think about the amount and speed of RAM in your PC too.

Cheers

A.