While SATA drives keep getting bigger and bigger, they aren't booting your PC any faster. What you need is a Solid-State drive to run your operating system on and keep your 1TB SATA drives for all of your data.

Crucial has recently introduced this SSD and its a speed demon. Performing at 250MB/s Read and 200MB/s Write, this will have Windows loaded in a snap! Although you don't need 256GB for just the OS, you'll have plenty of space left over to your frequently accessed data.

"Bigger and Faster" technology always seems to cost more and this is the case with this drive. If you want the 256GB version this price is around $725. The 64GB version, which will still easily hold your OS, is a more reasonable $240.

via thinkcomputers

Buy: Crucial M225 Series 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive 256GB
Crucial M225 Series 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive 128GB
Crucial M225 Series 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive 64GB

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