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[Sotos]

I build my own computers and I like to have all the options to customize it to my needs so no Macs for me. Also this "we are so cool" Apple Marketing is something I dislike. Sega don't invest in 10.000rpm drives now. Their days are counted. SSD is the future. The OCZ Vertex is a good choice for price/performance right now. My raptor was fried a few months ago and I replaced it with a usual 7200 drive. The performance drop was noticeable and I was about to get a velociraptor but then I decided to wait a bit more and get an SSD when their prices will come down a bit more. From what I read a good SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for real world performance gains since the Hard Drive is very often the bottleneck in the system. The capacities of SSD are still low when compared to mechanical Hard Drives so most people would use them for OS Drive only.

[Sotos]

Vista eats up too many resources. Personally I don't like all that useless eye candy in an OS.

[shahmaran]

I build my own computers and I like to have all the options to customize it to my needs so no Macs for me. Also this "we are so cool" Apple Marketing is something I dislike. Sega don't invest in 10.000rpm drives now. Their days are counted. SSD is the future. The OCZ Vertex is a good choice for price/performance right now. My raptor was fried a few months ago and I replaced it with a usual 7200 drive. The performance drop was noticeable and I was about to get a velociraptor but then I decided to wait a bit more and get an SSD when their prices will come down a bit more. From what I read a good SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for real world performance gains since the Hard Drive is very often the bottleneck in the system. The capacities of SSD are still low when compared to mechanical Hard Drives so most people would use them for OS Drive only.

Wait, who says you cannot customize an Apple computer?

Also you should consider the reason behind "needing" to customize.

10,000 rpm is dirt cheap now, unlike the 15K, I have 3 and have been using them for almost 5 years now not a single tik, not a single error, nothing!

If you need faster disk access for work such as audio or video editing and cannot afford a SCSI system, this is probably the best and only alternative.

[cyprusgrump]

I build my own computers and I like to have all the options to customize it to my needs so no Macs for me. Also this "we are so cool" Apple Marketing is something I dislike. Sega don't invest in 10.000rpm drives now. Their days are counted. SSD is the future. The OCZ Vertex is a good choice for price/performance right now. My raptor was fried a few months ago and I replaced it with a usual 7200 drive. The performance drop was noticeable and I was about to get a velociraptor but then I decided to wait a bit more and get an SSD when their prices will come down a bit more. From what I read a good SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for real world performance gains since the Hard Drive is very often the bottleneck in the system. The capacities of SSD are still low when compared to mechanical Hard Drives so most people would use them for OS Drive only.

I've been thinking of a small SSD to hold Windows... I'm sure it would significantly improve the performance of XP...

[Get Real!]

I build my own computers and I like to have all the options to customize it to my needs so no Macs for me. Also this "we are so cool" Apple Marketing is something I dislike. Sega don't invest in 10.000rpm drives now. Their days are counted. SSD is the future. The OCZ Vertex is a good choice for price/performance right now. My raptor was fried a few months ago and I replaced it with a usual 7200 drive. The performance drop was noticeable and I was about to get a velociraptor but then I decided to wait a bit more and get an SSD when their prices will come down a bit more. From what I read a good SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for real world performance gains since the Hard Drive is very often the bottleneck in the system. The capacities of SSD are still low when compared to mechanical Hard Drives so most people would use them for OS Drive only.

I've been thinking of a small SSD to hold Windows... I'm sure it would significantly improve the performance of XP...

Definitely! Yet another IBM invention although currently only up to 64Gb but think about that for a moment… no moving parts!

http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/ ... /index.htm

I think the last time we looked they were around the $350 mark!

[cyprusgrump]

I build my own computers and I like to have all the options to customize it to my needs so no Macs for me. Also this "we are so cool" Apple Marketing is something I dislike. Sega don't invest in 10.000rpm drives now. Their days are counted. SSD is the future. The OCZ Vertex is a good choice for price/performance right now. My raptor was fried a few months ago and I replaced it with a usual 7200 drive. The performance drop was noticeable and I was about to get a velociraptor but then I decided to wait a bit more and get an SSD when their prices will come down a bit more. From what I read a good SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for real world performance gains since the Hard Drive is very often the bottleneck in the system. The capacities of SSD are still low when compared to mechanical Hard Drives so most people would use them for OS Drive only.

I've been thinking of a small SSD to hold Windows... I'm sure it would significantly improve the performance of XP...

Definitely! Yet another IBM invention although currently only up to 64Gb but think about that for a moment… no moving parts!

http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/ ... /index.htm

I think the last time we looked they were around the $350 mark!

Up to 256Gbytes now!

Although I'd only need ~30Gbytes to hold XP and associated software...

[Get Real!]

I build my own computers and I like to have all the options to customize it to my needs so no Macs for me. Also this "we are so cool" Apple Marketing is something I dislike. Sega don't invest in 10.000rpm drives now. Their days are counted. SSD is the future. The OCZ Vertex is a good choice for price/performance right now. My raptor was fried a few months ago and I replaced it with a usual 7200 drive. The performance drop was noticeable and I was about to get a velociraptor but then I decided to wait a bit more and get an SSD when their prices will come down a bit more. From what I read a good SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for real world performance gains since the Hard Drive is very often the bottleneck in the system. The capacities of SSD are still low when compared to mechanical Hard Drives so most people would use them for OS Drive only.

I've been thinking of a small SSD to hold Windows... I'm sure it would significantly improve the performance of XP...

Definitely! Yet another IBM invention although currently only up to 64Gb but think about that for a moment… no moving parts!

http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/ ... /index.htm

I think the last time we looked they were around the $350 mark!

Up to 256Gbytes now!

Although I'd only need ~30Gbytes to hold XP and associated software...

Really? Have you got a link for one of these?

[cyprusgrump]

I build my own computers and I like to have all the options to customize it to my needs so no Macs for me. Also this "we are so cool" Apple Marketing is something I dislike. Sega don't invest in 10.000rpm drives now. Their days are counted. SSD is the future. The OCZ Vertex is a good choice for price/performance right now. My raptor was fried a few months ago and I replaced it with a usual 7200 drive. The performance drop was noticeable and I was about to get a velociraptor but then I decided to wait a bit more and get an SSD when their prices will come down a bit more. From what I read a good SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for real world performance gains since the Hard Drive is very often the bottleneck in the system. The capacities of SSD are still low when compared to mechanical Hard Drives so most people would use them for OS Drive only.

I've been thinking of a small SSD to hold Windows... I'm sure it would significantly improve the performance of XP...

Definitely! Yet another IBM invention although currently only up to 64Gb but think about that for a moment… no moving parts!

http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/ ... /index.htm

I think the last time we looked they were around the $350 mark!

Up to 256Gbytes now!

Although I'd only need ~30Gbytes to hold XP and associated software...

Really? Have you got a link for one of these?

Try this!

[Get Real!]

I build my own computers and I like to have all the options to customize it to my needs so no Macs for me. Also this "we are so cool" Apple Marketing is something I dislike. Sega don't invest in 10.000rpm drives now. Their days are counted. SSD is the future. The OCZ Vertex is a good choice for price/performance right now. My raptor was fried a few months ago and I replaced it with a usual 7200 drive. The performance drop was noticeable and I was about to get a velociraptor but then I decided to wait a bit more and get an SSD when their prices will come down a bit more. From what I read a good SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for real world performance gains since the Hard Drive is very often the bottleneck in the system. The capacities of SSD are still low when compared to mechanical Hard Drives so most people would use them for OS Drive only.

I've been thinking of a small SSD to hold Windows... I'm sure it would significantly improve the performance of XP...

Definitely! Yet another IBM invention although currently only up to 64Gb but think about that for a moment… no moving parts!

http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/ ... /index.htm

I think the last time we looked they were around the $350 mark!

Up to 256Gbytes now!

Although I'd only need ~30Gbytes to hold XP and associated software...

Really? Have you got a link for one of these?

Try this!

Neat! Wouldn't these render the HDD led useless? Would it be able to blink on/off in time?

[cyprusgrump]

I build my own computers and I like to have all the options to customize it to my needs so no Macs for me. Also this "we are so cool" Apple Marketing is something I dislike. Sega don't invest in 10.000rpm drives now. Their days are counted. SSD is the future. The OCZ Vertex is a good choice for price/performance right now. My raptor was fried a few months ago and I replaced it with a usual 7200 drive. The performance drop was noticeable and I was about to get a velociraptor but then I decided to wait a bit more and get an SSD when their prices will come down a bit more. From what I read a good SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for real world performance gains since the Hard Drive is very often the bottleneck in the system. The capacities of SSD are still low when compared to mechanical Hard Drives so most people would use them for OS Drive only.

I've been thinking of a small SSD to hold Windows... I'm sure it would significantly improve the performance of XP...

Definitely! Yet another IBM invention although currently only up to 64Gb but think about that for a moment… no moving parts!

http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/ ... /index.htm

I think the last time we looked they were around the $350 mark!

Up to 256Gbytes now!

Although I'd only need ~30Gbytes to hold XP and associated software...

Really? Have you got a link for one of these?

Try this!

Neat! Wouldn't these render the HDD led useless? Would it be able to blink on/off in time?

I hope so... my LED needs a rest...