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Saturday
Aug182012

SSD Hard Drive prices are coming down, get one if you can

For years most of us have been skeptical of Solid State Hard Drives (SSD's) because of the long term viability of Solid State Hardware.  In short, would it last as long as standard hard drives?  Well they are almost as good in that respect, but they blow away standard hard drives in performance.  Some models with up to 21 times the speed difference of regular hard drives make them very tempting.  Too tempting actually.  Tonight, or actually, this morning, I installed the Crucial brand M4, 120Gb SSD ($117 from Newegg)and the performance is great.  There are many brands to choose from but I like the Crucial because you can get a special laptop conversion kit with the drive.  What it does is that you can connect your SSD to your current laptop and clone the drive to the SSD.  Once cloned, install and turn on.  Everything from your old drive is intact, except now it's on a SSD drive.  It will clone it even though the SSD drive is smaller (providing that the programs and data on the old drive is less than the new drive).  Not that I would recommend anything from B*st B*y, but they just had a price drop of $40 on the Intel Cherryville 120GB drive from $189 to $149.  Finally a deal that is comparable with the Internet..so far I should say. 

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