Then consumer grade of SSD and even HDD don't suit you. You need to pay more for enterprise grade drives.
Also, SSD upgrade is perhaps better than even ram upgrade.

Some might say 10 sec program loading reduce to 5 sec loading like not significant but hey if you open programs day to day, how many seconds you have saved?
Especially you are in a rush to do something, what would you feel when something response slow like a snail?

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Typically, people keep complaining about SSD's reliability and price but do not actually own a SSD drive. Get 1 and it will change your mind.

To show the performance difference, here is the benchmark screenshot of my own entry level SSD and F3 1TB:



Please don't compare to the internet reviews as I just wanted to show my own experience of the performance difference.

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Added on September 24, 2010, 5:57 pm Please look at the date of the article and it is very vague. Technology is moving fast and nowadays flash memory has a much higher write cycles already.


This post has been edited by hosealwh: Sep 24 2010, 05:57 PM

AFAIK, TRIM is flash controller based and it needs to be support by OS as well. Basically I don't see a need for thumb drive to have this function as they are not being wrote often as much like SSD.

There are reasons why SSDs are more expensive then thumb drives.

This post has been edited by hosealwh: Sep 25 2010, 12:58 AM