Geeze guys... I'm getting the Intel SSD drive as its far and above the biggest difference I can make with my new system-compared to me just getting a 'regular' spindle based SATA disk. Is it an obscene amount to spend for so little size-OF COURSE!!
With a SSD, the only bottleneck (and I'm being very relative about this) I will have is the data I create or working with. If I get a SATA spindle drive, IT will be the bottleneck.
Of course in 2-4 years when I buy a SSD with a 500GB size for $100 and better performance than what I buy now, I'll want to shoot myself. But ahh, till then....
The idea of bottlenecks without reference to something is a dumb one. a spindle drive only bottlenecks heavy random HD access, nothing more. Your games don't run faster, your photoshop filters aren't applied faster, ect. SSDs will make things feel snappier, as they are able to load quicker, but they won't make your programs magically run faster.
For a database systems, this could be a great boon, Lots of random HD accesses practically screams "I'm using a database."
For gaming systems, umm, yeah, your levels will load faster (and if the game is programmed well, there shouldn't be much of a difference between SSD vs Spindle in level loading.) and the OS will boot up faster.
For me at least, SSDs aren't worth it at this price point. They are faster, however, modern architectures go to GREAT lengths to account for slow HD speed (its called, ram). While there are some situations that some users will definitely want an SSD for, for me and most home consumers it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
I'm curious why you would be dumping the photo files to the SSD while you work on them. I can't imagine that's going to provide any benefit other than slightly shortening the time it takes to open the file in Photoshop or whatever. After that, they should be in memory while you're working on them, anyway.
Precisely. You'll only gain a faster load and save time, not much else.
Keep the swap file on the SSD. You bought it for speed...moving the swap file to the slower drive(s) makes no sense.
80GB is a good amount of space for Windows and programs. Keep media and data files on another drive and you're fine.
Unless your computer never accesses the swap. Your swap is there for "Opps, ran out of memory" situations. I have 8gb of ram, and while I still have a swap, I have yet to have actually touched it. The hibernate should stay on the SSD however, One of SSD drives' main selling points is their fast boot times, no reason to cripple it.
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