"Samsung, in case you haven't noticed SSDs are already plenty fast enough in comparison to the conventional hard disks they are meant to replace."
Mm...I'm pretty sure this is false. Last go around with these drives, read speeds were about the same as current hard drives and writes were waaay slower. I imagine it depends on what your doing (seek vs transfer), but current solid-state drives are by no means a slam dunk at this point.
I wouldn't go buying until some independent benchmarks are made available. In the meantime, you can always buy another gig of RAM...
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"Samsung, in case you haven't noticed SSDs are already plenty fast enough in comparison to the conventional hard disks they are meant to replace."
Mm...I'm pretty sure this is false. Last go around with these drives, read speeds were about the same as current hard drives and writes were waaay slower. I imagine it depends on what your doing (seek vs transfer), but current solid-state drives are by no means a slam dunk at this point.
I wouldn't go buying until some independent benchmarks are made available. In the meantime, you can always buy another gig of RAM...