Lukas Beeler's IT Blog

So SSDs have been out for quite some time and with the upcoming release of Windows 7 (August 6th on TechNet), i decided to get myself one at home. This coinceded nicely with Intels announcement of the X25-M G2, the 34nm SSD.

I ordered mine last Friday and it arrived yesterday. It looks like i was rather lucky with this, because Intel has since withdrawn them because of an issue with using a HDD password. Since i don’t use that, i didn’t care and installed Windows 7 RC.

And, well, the performance is absolutely astonishing. I’ve upgraded from an old AMD X2 running Windows 7 Beta earlier this year to an i7 also running Windows 7 Beta – more RAM, new hard disk, new graphics. The UI wasn’t noticably faster, sometimes Explorer decided to take ages to work things out, the event viewer was still rather slow, but of course video recoding and games were a lot better.

But now, with an SSD, the UI is extremely responsive – event viewer opens instantly, switches instantly between categories. It just feels like a new machine, with just one part replaced.

So, yeah. I’m quite pleased with my purchase.