10s from the moment you press the power button to a usable desktop is impossible.
The PC that i'm using,it needs around 10-15s to POST,then 25s to BOOT.
Write is when you install something or copy something over to the SSD.Windows installation time certainly improved,but not by much.IINM it went from 35m to 25m or so.

Definitely a worthy upgrade.

Right now in a laptop,the Dell Studio 1555 to be exact.

The F90 has better writes if the data is compressible,so it is faster.However the Intel is 160GB,the F90 is 90GB,that's a lot of difference especially for a laptop.

I don't see why it won't fit since 2.5" HDDs fit.

oh,compatibily...You have to ask at Sager forums then.

Personally i'd buy it,it's really fast,warranty is still available and the capacity is also quite big

Yes,better get it fast before someone else buys it

then get the Intel X18M G2 160GB at RM450+-,it's not as fast as the C300 but not slow either

get a cheap 40GB SSD that's not too slow,a good HDD and a Z68 board,your games will load as fast as a SSD if you use SSD caching.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4329/intel-z...aching-review/4
Yes,most laptops with a ODD drive can do that,you just need a caddy like the one being sold here

What's your power plan?
Anyway,how do you use FF?Even on a 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM it doesn't lag [the PC has a SSD].

Here you go.

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Added on May 20, 2011, 8:37 pmI didn't make that,found it in someone's post her on LYN sometime ago.I can't remember whose the one who posted it though.

This post has been edited by Racerx: May 20 2011, 08:37 PM


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A Momentus XT used for storage won't perform much differently compared to a 7200RPM 2.5" 500GB HDD since the cache is just 4GB.

My point is that at more than two times the price of a standard 7200RPM 500GB 2.5" HDD it isn't worth the cost.

In terms of performance;
Intel 510>Intel 320

so the pic posted is not a benchmark you've done yourself?Did you enable AHCI in your BIOS before you installed Windows?

Personally i'd put it this way Capacity>Speed=Reliability since the SSD will be used for OS and apps anyway,important data is still stored in HDDs.You definitely won't regret getting a SSD for your desktop
The form factor is different,the MBA uses mSATA SSDs that have connectors that look like miniPCIE so normal SATA3 SSDs such as the Intel 510 can't be used.Even the shape is different,such SSDs look like RAM DIMMs