Why SSDs kick ass.

Today I decided to install a Crucial M4 SSD into my 2011 Macbook Pro. It only took around 15 minutes to install the drive and around 30 minutes to restore from last night's Time Machine back up.

I have got to say that it's the best upgrade I have ever made to any personal computer (and that's out of a lot of upgrades).

My Macbook is now booting in 15 seconds and everything on the machine is available instantly.

I ran a disk speed test and the drive pulled off an amazing 195MB/s write and 422MB/s read!!

I also went a little crazy and decided to open nearly all my applications at once:

If you want to see the Geekbench results for my Macbook click here.

I always knew SDDs were awesome from using them with SAN arrays, but it's really nice to use them on a laptop or personal PC. The moral of this story is buy an SSD. I will be replacing all my system drives with them.

As always, thanks for reading!