Michael Stone wrote: > The improvement in seek times typically makes for a dramatic improvement > in usability and user experience, regardless of maximum transfer rate. > Replacing an SSD with an HD will usually breathe new life into an old > system; people tend to dramatically underestimate how much I/O wait > impacts performance. If you've got enough RAM to cache the entire > working disk then this will be much less noticeable, except on boot, but > that's usually not the case on desktop systems.
I was actually thinking of replacing the rotating disks yesterday at least for the system and build environment as it has a lot of IO - I guess your argument counts, so may be I will reconsider replacing them. Can someone recommend server or NAS grade (SATA) SSD - a reliable one for RAID use?