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    SSD

    Put an SSD in my wife's laptop (Dell inspiron 501) as a little upgrade for her. I really like the speed that apps like IE8 InPrivate (she likes to use it) opens almost instantly; even control panel opens in a second or so. Time will tell how long this drive will last. Very worthwhile upgrade. Of course I have things like hibernation, superfetch, indexing, page file etc. turned off and disabled.
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    Make sure to tell her NOT to defrag either.

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    Make that an inspiron 1501. She doesn't do anything other than use IE; so it will never be defragged. I'm getting really close to getting one of these SSD's for myself.
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    Mid.... Why no defragging? What will that do to the drive?
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    Wear it out faster.

    Disable Vista/Win7 defrag at startup:
    http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/15...e-disable.html

    Disable weekly scheduled defrag in Vista/Win7:
    http://vistasupport.mvps.org/disable...r_schedule.htm

    And maybe these articles will help out.
    http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=3531&p=1


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    What he said. It's the same deal with usb flash drives.

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    well that solves that....
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    I wish they wouldn't say that these drives will last 1,500,000 hours. Really misleading. I'm figuring 3-5 years of use (hopefully).
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    Guess it was like a DVD.. they said it would last a 100 years or more. How do they know that for sure? DVD's haven't been around that long.

    Go figure....
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