Woot! SSD!

[Puddle Jumper]

^^I though it was the placebo effect on mine at first too but when I tried using a system with a conventional drive again I couldn't believe how sluggish it was.

+1 for welcome to the club.

I get sub 30 seconds with my 7200.12 Seagate... Obviously SDD's are faster but i didnt realise i wasnt that bad off.

Boot times are only a small part of the picture, the difference is responsiveness is like night and day.

Now that there are a good number of SSD users here I will have to make a thread for the AS SSD Benchmark. From what I have seen it's a much more accurate method of comparing drive performance than HD Tach.

 

[philbar71]

^ Puddle is right, overall system responsiveness makes a huge jump.

 

[Hefemeister]

The problem you have is you computer will bottleneck that ssd.

Send it to me so it can be tested to ensure this is not a problem.