Yesterday I witnessed first hand how SSD can literally change one’s computing experience. Nothing short of a relevation.

I helped a client configure a personal computer from the group up. He wanted middle-of-the-range specs that would handle normal office softwares, non-intensive photo editing and web browsing. For the budget he set aside, I could easily build two units that satisfy such requirements. So I suggested he try SSD, although still expensive but gives a huge performance boost to many areas of computing. He agreed to use SSD as the system main drive and a 1TB hard drive as storage.

We had a bit of time to spare yesterday so I installed Windows XP and a few softwares on the normal hard drive first and played around for an hour or so. Then we wiped everything in the normal hard drive, put in the SDD and installed Windows XP in it. I was hoping to show the overall speed difference an SSD is capable of to my friend and we were blown away.

The first shocking surprise is seeing Windows XP boot up in less than 10 seconds. Softwares that take around 10 to 15 seconds to load saw loading time slashed to less than 5 seconds. I could see the look of satisfaction and awe on my friend’s face. Although half of his budget went into the cost of purchasing an SSD, there is nothing else currently available that could lift overall computing experience to a new high than SSD.