I like to think of myself as a serious user so, just as soon as SSDs dropped in price to a reasonable level, off I went to my supplier and walked out with an OCZ Vertex Plus 60GB SATA II SSD (a tiny little thing), in hand.īoth Windows 7, and Windows 8, set up nicely on an SSD and the OS will optimize the drive, to some extent. SSDs – Solid State Drives – which do not employ any moving mechanical components and, are far less susceptible to physical shock capable of faster boot times faster system shutdown along with faster sleep and hibernation modes, are the choice of “serious” computer users. Mechanical Hard Drives, while not quite passé, are becoming the new “Model T” of storage devices. It would be an understatement to say that we’ve come a long way since – but, I’ll say it. I paid $800 ($1,780 in today’s coin) for this “Model T” of hard drives – which required one to invoke the DOS Park utility to secure the heads in case of misadventure. A mega sized 10 MB HD (yep, 10 MB – not 10 GB) with a seek time of 198 ms. Back when the World was young (1984) – and, me too for that matter – I bought my first Hard Drive.
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