I bought an intel X25-M SSD last week and it does make a *big* difference! It is faster, develops less noise and heat and the battery lasts longer.
I am using it with a lenovo thinkpad t410 laptop running Ubuntu 10.10 and it’s just great!
For what it’s worth I am running a pretty recent kernel in conjunction with the Ubuntu maverick userland. Not sure how well the normal 2.6.35 kernel supports SSDs.
Anyway, SSDs are the way to go 
March 12, 2011 at 11:43 am |
uff I added an SSD (OCZ Vertex 2) to my old PC (hp dc7100 sff, already 5-6 years old) and it ROCKS. Finally I see the processor usage going to 100%. Otherwise it was always wrr wrr wrr of the disk plate.
and applications start now like they should! click and bang! there it is
SSDs are the way to go
March 12, 2011 at 1:07 pm |
Intel SSDs are awesome. At last I can freely use recursive greps over large codebases without having to go make a cup of coffee.
March 12, 2011 at 3:18 pm |
I love them, best upgrade investment I got in my macbook. Everything is snappier and faster!