title: What's in an SSD?
author: mazyod
category: tech
comments: true
date: 2011-12-15 18:45:30+00:00
slug: whats-in-an-ssd
tags: HDD, SSD
wordpress_id: 151

The SSD haz finally arrived!

So, the question immediately rises, is it worth the $370? See for yourself:

[![image](/images/screen-shot-2011-12-15-at-3-58-23-pm.png)](/images/screen-shot-2011-12-15-at-3-58-23-pm.png)

That's the freaking-ishly slow HDD of the 20th century .. Moving on to the 21st century:

[![image](/images/screen-shot-2011-12-15-at-3-57-44-pm.png)](/images/screen-shot-2011-12-15-at-3-57-44-pm.png)

Unless the Math that I was taught was all a lie, I'd say that's a good 4x performance boost!!

The Mac feels great! Lighting fast file read/write/copy. Photoshop CS 5.1 starts without bouncing on the dashboard for half an hour as it did before. I really like this awesome Crucial(1) product!!

(1): I am not getting paid one penny for saying this >.>

Well, let me see if that site finished setting up my account so I can haz server programmingz 8)
