Hi one and all

I'm noodling around with hardware and I'm wondering about the 
advantages of the rather expensive "solid state drives" offered by 
Apple.

Would they significantly speed up stuff? I have a 7200 drive in my 
MacBook, and it seems to me it speeds up stuff compared with the 5400 
drive it had. Also being solid state, I'm thinking that should mean 
that basically it should be pretty much unbreakable. Today's HDs are 
pretty rugged, but ...

Does anyone have an experience?

And what about disadvantages?

Cheers, Geoff

Geoffrey Heard
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The Worsley Press

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