ssd main drive nerd shit
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I have a 512gb SSD as my main drive in my HP Envy 17" with a 1.5tb for general storage. It's now 12 months old and runs like a dream. The trick is not to use the SSD for general file keeping, downloads etc so that it's really just got your main current working files and software as SSD's wear out from writing data rather than hours running as is the case with your standard platter drive. This way it shouldn't wear out. That said, the drives are getting better and better so I don't imagine this being a problem in the near (or current?) future.
Open and save times on large photoshop files are amazing. I'm talking less than 3 seconds for files up in the high hundreds of megabytes. The operating system is very zippy to boot, and programs open extremely quickly.
The thing with computer performance is that it's all about the slowest link in your hardware. Usually this is the hard drive, so an SSD will give you huge performance gains compared to just ram or CPU. This is particularly true in a production environment where you are using large amounts of virtual memory/working with large files.