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Old 08-18-2012, 03:01 AM
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Just be warned that after you get an SSD for your main system every computer you work on that has spinning platters will seem glacially slow.
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Interesting article about using SSD as cache drive - the idea being large storage devices' performance can be significantly enhanced by adding an ssd for cache.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/13...air-face-off/1
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Old 08-19-2012, 01:09 PM
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Seeing a higher than 20% failure rate..keeping me away from them for now.
I just swapped a crucial 500 gb for a clients standard hd in his new asus laptop this week too, wow amazing boot times! but I heard about the failure rate too, I advised him to back-up his data regularly.
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