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My desktop and my netbook both run on Intel 40GB SSDs. Of course, the desktop also has two 1TB normal HDDs (Samsung F3s) for storage. / and /home are on the SSD.

My netbook is the System76 Starling netbook, and my desktop is custom built. The netbook takes about 15 seconds from Off the the Web. The desktop takes about 10 seconds from Off to the Web.

Launching Eclipse takes about 3 seconds (on the deskop; never tried on the netbook). Everything is incredibly fast.

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Same experience here, got a 80MB Intel SSD for my desktop, and being able to start apps in windows the second login is completed is awesome. With a regular disk, you know you're waiting for all the background services and startup apps to launch before the app you actually wanted gets its slot in the I/O queue.

I did some tests on having my local repository on the SSD, but it wasn't substantially faster than my regular HDD, probably because working with it is sequential and heavily cached.

It will be nice when SSDs are price competitive enough to be the only storage in a desktop computer, if only for getting rid of the heat and the noise.

Which model of SSD specifically? How much did you pay?

For both machines I use the X25-V, which cost around $110 each time. Here it is on newegg.ca: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168201670...

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