Solid state disks (SSDs) provide one of the biggest performance boosts of any hardware upgrade available today. With prices continuing to fall, it really is now within the reach of even the tightest budget. … you could go with a small drive size for your system disk and use a secondary conventional drive to store your data. You don’t want to put your swap drive and probably not your main home folders on an SSD as they do have a limited number of read / write cycles. …

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