(Don’t forget to read “ How to Switch to a Solid-State Drive” for more advice.) SSD Basics
Here are a few tips for picking out the right model, making sure that it will work with your setup, carefully cloning your old drive, and keeping the install process clean and painless. However, upgrading to a solid-state drive isn’t as easy as buying a drive and throwing it in your PC. They offer fabulous read performance, too, though their write performance varies random small writes can be very fast, but long writes of large block data (as you might have with continuous video recording) can be slower than on traditional hard drives. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they’re more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives–which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a bit.
