Anyone use solid-state drive instead of hard disk drive?

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Yeah, the latest SSD's are extremely fast, they really do live up to their reputation and ratings. My friend has one, a cheaper one, Kingston SSD NOW 60GB IIRC, one of the slowest, but damn, leaves a HDD in the dust.

I can't remember for the life of me, the firmware type, some acronym... anyways, it reads and writes in an intelligent way that drastically increases useful cycles available from the device.

Personally I would wait another year or two before jumping in, they are getting better at such a fast pace right now, by the time it arrived at your door beign shipped, a new one will be available that is faster, last longer, and less expensive.