Chris Gohlke
12-08-2009, 11:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/kingston-40gb-ssdnow-review/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/02/...-ssdnow-review/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"From the moment that we heard of the new 40GB Kingston SSD, we couldn't help but get our hopes up. Who knows if (or more likely, when) SSD drives will ever completely replace spinning platters with all the digital media people collect today, so rather than stretching your budget and compressing your media in order to stuff everything onto a 256GB solid state drive, we dug the idea of snagging a small (and affordable) SSD for boot / application operations and utilizing a spacious HDD for archival. Not to mention -- regardless of how fast a disk is -- two are almost always better than one."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1260224317.usr10.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></em></p><p>Now that the price/performance ratio is improving for SSD's it makes sense to start using a SSD as your boot drive. At under $100 bucks this seems like a great upgrade for building your own system. Wonder how long it will be until we start to see configurations like this in mainstream retail PC offerings.</p>