Beats having the OS on a spinning disk...

By KEANE A.

All of my production machines use an SSD as its system disk (but 7200rpm disks for data storage). The first machine I upgraded to an SSD only had a 120GB SSD, and occasionally ran very low on space. I also needed to upgrade one machine to Win10 for testing purposes. So I got a 480GB Ultra II, cloned the 120GB SSD to it (using acronis) and upgraded the new disk to Win10, giving me a instant backout to Win7 in case I came across any egregious problems. After a couple of weeks, so far, so g...ood. Speed and cost/gigabyte was more than acceptable. All of my SSD's are SanDisks (since 2012) and have been very reliable with no failures. Hopefully, the Ultra II will be as reliable as the Extremes have been.