ssds are still too rich for my blood. I’ll probably go with a hybrid drive for my next box.
Agreed! SATA 6G with a 10K RPM disk will provide way faster access speed than most have seen in recent years. Since 7200 RPM is the standard, folks are used to the 20-30 second boot time, but with SSD still running way too high compared to rotational disk with higher disk space, I’ll stick with the old platters.
Besides, if you’re using a 64-bit OS and have at least a dual-core proc and over 6 GB of RAM, the disk is only an issue on boot. After that, most everything is cached and accessed from physical memory. I turned off swap files after going 64-bit, and my disk doesn’t get accessed much anymore.