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Since people like storing stuff, capacity is often more important than boot speed. I prefer capacity.

• UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
  SSDs offer a massively improved computing experience. Boot speed is only a tiny part of that. It is very hard to quantify exactly why SSDs are so good. You just have to use one for a while and only then try going back to a HDD based system, you'll notice immediately and it will drive you up the wall. It is just 5ms here, 5ms there, you tab between this and that, and there is lag, you click this and there is lag, etc. With SSDs it is fluid and smooth. It is like comparing an iPhone to an Android 2.xx device. You could just feel that it wasn't as fluid and smooth and it bugged you. PS - Yes, Android 4.0 is as fluid and smooth as iPhones. It was just the first example I could think of.
  • mhurron 14y ago
    >You just have to use one for a while and only then try going back to a HDD based system, you'll notice immediately and it will drive you up the wall. I use one every day, work provided laptop has a SSD. It's not that big of a difference. The capacity/price on the other hand is a big difference.
• Cacti 14y ago
  It's speed in general, not just boot speed.
  • corresation 14y ago
    But it isn't speed in general. Most users open several applications and do little actually saving. Most systems now have copious memory, with GBs dedicated to cache. Windows since Vista has started even pre-caching files on a predicted need. Most file system access that does happen ends up being asynchronous. I love my SSDs in my desktop, but the truth is that it simply doesn't make that big of a difference. Even in I/O heavy apps I quickly learned that the storage was much less of a restriction than I thought it was.