I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X220 and wanted to equip it with an SSD without having to give up the hard drive. Therefore, I have the Intel 310 gained me with 80GB and it installed my system, the 320GB hard drive I use continues as media storage. The system starts since rapidly, here are a few common programs and their start times (on Windows 7): Mozilla Firefox: 1 second Itunes: 3 seconds Eclipse: 5 Seconds LibreOffice Writer: 6 seconds Adobe Reader (PDF) Open: less than 1 second VLC Media Player (Video Standard Definition open): 2 seconds
It must be said that the SSDs in the 2.5 "format are still usually faster. Whether in view of the above start times still plays a role, everyone must decide for themselves. For life, I can not say anything. The lifetime you can greatly increase definitely, if one avoids unnecessary write accesses, eg off hibernation in Windows.
