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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: ssd</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/ssd.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-10-14T13:03:07+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>The State of Solid State Hard Drives</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/14/coding/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-10-14T13:03:07+00:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T13:03:07+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/14/coding/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001304.html"&gt;The State of Solid State Hard Drives&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
From Jeff Atwood’s report it sounds like the price/performance ratio for SSD hard drives has got to a point where switching is the most cost effective way of improving a personal machine’s performance. Anyone know what’s involved in putting one of these things in a MacBook Pro?


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</summary><category term="harddrives"/><category term="jeff-atwood"/><category term="macbookpro"/><category term="performance"/><category term="ssd"/></entry><entry><title>Solid State Disk Changes The Game</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/13/labnotes/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-01-13T12:53:04+00:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T12:53:04+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/13/labnotes/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.labnotes.org/2007/01/12/solid-state-disk-change-the-game/"&gt;Solid State Disk Changes The Game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
“What if you had 2GB of RAM to compute, 32GB of SSD for fast random access, and 250GB of the slow kind. How would that change the way you design, and the kind of features you build?”


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