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Posted: **Wed May 18, 2011 3:53 pm**

Anyone have / use one of these?

Been thinking of upgrading my laptop to one of these before I punch it again for being so slow.

The Series claims to deliver read and write speeds of up to 550 MB/s and 520 MB/s respectively as well as offering 85000K IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second). The Force Series is designed to be backward compatible with SATA 2.

Just trying to find out if it would really make a significant difference or now.

(Yes, the times I want to punch my laptop, the hard drive light is going)

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Posted: **Wed May 18, 2011 4:28 pm**

My next PC is going to have a SSD as a boot drive.

Posted: **Thu May 19, 2011 9:56 am**

Maximize life of your SSD

Posted: **Thu May 19, 2011 2:34 pm**

I've heard decent reports from buddies of mine about some noticeable performance increases. Now, those dudes tend to run lots of dev & web shit on their machines, so their CPU time or memory pegging out wasn't uncommon. Don't know how the results would be on a machine that sees "average use."

Posted: **Thu May 19, 2011 3:07 pm**

I'm a developer.

Posted: **Sat Aug 15, 2015 1:31 pm**

Care and feeding of SSDs. In other news, anyone played around with portable SSDs? My desktop's got a dock for one but I've pretty much got no excuse to get one unless I upgrade to a laptop/tablet/wtf-ever with one, which is #2-3 on my list of 3-4 digit purchases in the near future. Until then, I've got a bandoleer of USB drives.

Posted: **Sat Aug 15, 2015 1:49 pm**

I've got SSDs everywhere these days, but no portable ones.

My laptop has 3x SSD. My wife's computer = SSD. My server boots from RAID1 SSD. my wife's data storage for her photo editing is RAID 5 SSD (4x500).

I lurve SSDs