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Old 01-04-2012, 01:04 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by iamskippy View Post
One of the big performance gains is when you are doing video or audio editing, running a server or gaming. But for the average user its not a viable upgrade.
Bingo! One of my friends uses the "How long does Adobe Photoshop take to open" test - from 10-20 seconds down to a couple seconds after he upgraded.

The other thing to keep in mind when buying an SSD is that you need to change your cache settings to minimize unnecessary writing onto the SSD. You also don't need things like Disk Defragmenter, Indexing or Prefetch any more.
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