Quote Originally Posted by techgnome View Post
Having had an SSD for the past year or so... it's barely worth it... they still have realiability issues (I had to have mine swapped out three times in a 4 month period)... and they have a limited Write cycle lifetime before failure... in other words, don't do a lot of heavy writing to it (unless you don't care about your database, don't put the DB on an SSD)... reading from it is fast and simple... if you're doing write-once read-lots, then they are great (for like streaming music, video, etc)...

What I've got now seems to be a really ideal setup:
a 125GB SSD with Windows installed, this is the boot drive, and where most of my applications go... I then have a secondary 500GB standard HD where all my data, databases, websites, other applications and my heavy read/write processing happens. Win 7 64-bit with 8GB RAM... so far, I'm loving it...

-tg
Yeah, using SSD as boot drive and HDD for data storage seems to be the norm. I too use this set up in all of my desktop and I am quite happy with it ... With laptops, it's another story though. Many laptops don't have an mSata slot (or already being utilized) and don't have room for a 2nd HDD. I've tried those hybrid HDDs some of my laptops but didn't very happy with the performance and eventually I switched to SSD... Just have to remind myself to do backups more frequently...