New SSD + clean windows install = *speeddrool*

I recently was frustrated with the speed of my Dell studio17 laptop and had been planning on adding a secondary drive to my open bay. I splurged and opted for a Vertex 3 OCZ 120gb solid state drive, and did a clean install of windows on it as my primary drive....

Talk about speed!!! I also run 6gb of memory and an i7, but load/shut down times of windows, photoshop, illustrator etc are significantly faster. It is at least triple the speed. I can now edit large video files in premier pro without a hitch whereas I couldn't even load a large source file without it crashing. I'm storing as much as I can on the old 500gb drive and my externals, but a solid state drive is probably one of the best investments I've made other than my wacom tablet. I highly recommend it

SSD = Solid State Drug. You'll never look at mechanical HDD the same way again

I plan on doing this to my desktop when Windows8 is released. I will replace my main drive with a SSD. And I found a expansion card that fits 2 additional laptop sized SSDs. So I will have my system on one SSD. Programs on another, and my working files on a third. And also a 2Tb internal spinning drive for mass storage. and external spinner for mass backup.

Yep, made the jump to a RAID 1 SSD setup for my OS drive and its been very nice! Glad I did it.

What's the general life expectancy with SSD's?

UKseagull wrote in post #14260873
What's the general life expectancy with SSD's?

Not sure for all, but the Crucial M4's I have this is what I found: LINK

Furthermore, as we've demonstrated in the past, given a normal desktop usage model even NAND rated for only 3000 program/erase cycles will last for a very long time given a controller with good wear leveling.
Let's quickly do the math again. If you have a 100GB drive and you write 7GB per day you'll program every MLC NAND cell in the drive in just over 14 days—that's one cycle out of three thousand. Outside of SandForce controllers, most SSD controllers will have a write amplification factor greater than 1 in any workload. If we assume a constant write amplification of 20x (and perfect wear leveling) we're still talking about a useful NAND lifespan of almost 6 years. In practice, write amplification for desktop workloads is significantly lower than that.

UKseagull wrote in post #14260873
What's the general life expectancy with SSD's?

Probably longer than before they become obsolete.