Windows 10

[Nick]

How good are SSDs now?
Last time I looked at them they were expensive and not very reliable.

Good and cheap now

I have just bought a load of Crucial MX200s (256Gb) - GBP 73 incl VAT - Crucial is the retail arm of Micron, one of the top 5 semiconductor companies in the world.

These are not cheap SSDs - they are full SATAIII - 555MB/s read and 500MB/s write. Never had a premium SSD fail on me yet (and we have 100s).

They'll outlive you

You can get cheaper SSDs but they will be a compromise - SSDs consist of a mix of memory technologies and very clever "wear leveling" controllers - "hot-spot" disk locations are mapped to special faster and more expensive/longer lasting memory - the cheap drives have none or very little of this fater/longer lasting memory.

I love them, both as boot disks and data disks for our developers (they make big system builds/recompiles a factor of 10 faster).