I can't justify the added bucks for a SSD, although when I think what I paid to UPGRADE to a 212 meg HD about 20 years ago.

Many of the reports I have read don't really put them that much faster than a good 7200 SATA. Several comparisons have shown how after time the wear leveling software / alogrythm will begin to slow down the drive.

And can you really notice the speed difference.
Like defragging, with the older drives you could notice the difference, with todays high speed drives can you 'really' notice a difference.

I don't really worry about the wear issue, I don't see most home users every coming close.

But the prices are high compared to regular HDs when comparing size.

Although I got a 500 gig hd (7200 Sata) with this laptop, with the recovery partition, tons of stuff stored here just to store it here and I still have 350+ gig free.
They keep coming out with bigger and bigger drives, I think we are aproaching the point of too much storage.
Much like CPUs, do people realize that Windows, Mac AND Linux don't make good use of multiple CPUs. Particularly past 2 or 3 AND very little software multi-threads to take advantage of multi cores.

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