

There is already enough literature about SSD vs HDD and why you should or shouldn’t upgrade. Read and Write speed test for a Samsung 840 series SSD (250GB) Check the read/write speed of the drive in the screenshot below (remember on SATA II, the maximum transfer cannot exceed 300MB/s). Applications such as iTunes, iPhoto, Eclipse open in less than 3 seconds. Booting time has reduced from 120+ seconds to under 30 seconds. It has nitro boosted for a 5 year old laptop (which still runs on SATA II). And to say that the laptop performance has increased will be an understatement. Recently I went through the process of replacing the hard disk drive (HDD) with a Solid State Drive (SSD) in my laptop (MacBook Pro 2009).
