I just bought a Kingston 64GB SSD for about $149 at Fry's. I put it in my Sony Vaio as the only drive and did a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.
It is really super fast now. Open Office spreadsheet opens in under 2 seconds. It boots in about 15 seconds. The install of the OS was considerably faster etc.
I have only had 1 actual session on the new setup but it seemed to speed everything up the whole time. Loading web pages in google chrome seemed almost unreal.
Most likely the fresh install had something to do with that. AFAIK the browser lives in memory and only touches the hard disk for saving files/history.
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I just bought a Kingston 64GB SSD for about $149 at Fry's. I put it in my Sony Vaio as the only drive and did a fresh install of Ubuntu 9. It is really super fast now. Open Office spreadsheet opens in under 2 seconds. It boots in about 15 seconds. The install of the OS was considerably faster etc. I have only had 1 actual session on the new setup but it seemed to speed everything up the whole time. Loading web pages in google chrome seemed almost unreal.
Chrome shouldn't be any faster with a faster hard disk, AFAIK. Maybe some weird I/O flushes in the program were slowing it down...
Most likely the fresh install had something to do with that. AFAIK the browser lives in memory and only touches the hard disk for saving files/history.
yea could be. But chrome is so much faster than firefox especially the initial program load.