For work I have small SSD (80GB) for Windows and Program Files and my outlook mail files with most storage on a large normal drive.

It's really fast booting and restarting and program start up is faster, so it does seem a much snappier system.

In this case I didn't have the system without the drive so I can't really compare but all my colleagues swear by SSD for storing windows and swear at any system which doesn't have one.

So I'd advise get a small SSD and just store the system files on it.

2 cents...

Chris

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