hpeer wrote in news:49be36ed$0$19669
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My desktop died so I bought a laptop as a replacement. I got a Dell as
I have them at work and have very good luck. They gave me the option of
a 128Gb SOLID STATE hard drive for $350 extra. I opted for that as, in
my experience, the thing that goes first is usually the hard drive.

Also should make the machine light, cooler, faster and less power hungry.



http://techreport.com/articles.x/13163

Here's a great test report pitting many different laptop drives against the
newest SSDs. Where the SSDs shine is in the cats of power consumption and,
of course, shock resistance. Where the SSDs suck is when you WRITE to
them.....which also wears them enough that the manufacturers have some
moving around software running inside them so the memory areas that do a
LOT of writing isn't done all in one place, wearing holes in the memory
structure causing premature failure. SSD memory HAS a limited number of
write cycles they've stretched out pretty far....but not eliminated.

I've got a 20MB IDE drive from the 1980s that STILL reads and writes just
fine......a credit to its maker.