who has a solid state drive in their system?
 

curious does anyone have the solid state for your os, and a regular sata for apps?

Im looking at doing this with my new system.

Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M080G2XXX 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive

is the one im looking at.

I have that drive in my laptop, it works great.

That's the one I have on my home pc, make sure to update the firmware. Will never go back to regular HD for OS anymore.

I also bought the cheaper V series 40 gig for a new asus laptop and let me tell you this thing is blazing fast. Laptop gives me around 11 hours of juice, loads up in under 20 seconds.

I have a 64GB SSD in my Dell laptop. It powers my OS and all the programs. Leaving me about 20 GB for current files and documents. The rest is keept in a cloud service online. It's very nice to have a laptop being that silent, and it consumes less power too! A good deal for laptop computers, for stationary desktops, I don't really see the use. Buy an extra usb drive instead and backup all your files that way instead.

What kind of SSD do you have that you can't see the use on a desktop?

i use that hard drive for my OS. with intel drivers, win7, and trim, its great. i use a WD quiet for data.

Yes they are nice and fast and quiet and all those great things but they do get hot so keep that in mind if you use them to upgrade a laptop with poor cooling it will overheat

Great drives, but expensive.

we use them in servers a lot, in my dell precision workstation i use raid 1 sas drives which are fast enough :)

Ya I currently have a wd 1tb drive for my os,thinking of switching.

http://i49.tinypic.com/15dw2zp.jpg

same here

Yes and it's fantastic. I have the 160G Intel X25-M. I have all my OS and apps on it, and use mechanical HDD's for storage.

Our laptops have 128GB SSHD's. I do not plan on ever going back.

I have a 120GB OCZ Summit Series SSD (220MB/sec read, 200MB/sec write, 128MB cache)
in my laptop ... great drive !

Got 2 30GB SSDs today for my new build. Got the OCZ Vector though.

SSDs are more advantageous for laptops than desktops for several reasons.

Laptop drives are slow - typically 5400 RPM or slower. On a desktop, you can
easily use a pair of 7200 RPM or higher drives.

A little less power makes difference when you're running from a battery.
With a desktop that's plugged in, a few watts doesn't matter.

On a desktop which stays running, all of the frequently accessed files are cached in
RAM, so the speed of the hard drive doesn't matter too much. A laptop is often
powered up and down, so system and program files have to be read from disk rather than RAM.

In order to save a few watts of power, a laptop on battery will aggressively spin down
the hard drive. Spinning it back up is slow, so avoiding spinup with an SSD is good.
On a desktop, the drive is rarely spun down, so it makes less of a difference.

Desktops typically have much larger hard drives. Replacing a 250GB drive in a
laptop with a $750 SSD is one thing. Spending $6000 to replace a 2 TB desktop
drive is quite another.

So yes, SSDs have their advantages even on desktop systems, but the benefits are
much more pronounced in laptops. That said, I may get an SSD for my system drive
next year, when prices drop. Instead, I may just get another 4GB of RAM for $125,
so everything will be cached and that'll be much faster than an SSD. Of course, I use
Linux, which much more effectively takes advantage of that extra RAM compared
to Windows. Windows is just starting to try to use extra RAM with superfetch.
While it's about 10 years behind Linux in this regard, superfetch does allow Windows
users to take advantage of extra RAM to reduce disk access, in a limited way.