My corporate IT department upgraded my Notebook PC’s hard drive to a Solid State Drive six months ago. Since then I've never looked back, I am one really happy user. Why I hear you ask? What follows are few of the things that come to mind.

I love the fact that my Backup program can start up and it doesn't affect what I'm doing. Or seize the computer up entirely.

It's great that I don't have to switch the anti-virus program off when it starts up unexpectedly and I am in the middle of working on something urgent.

Hibernate and standby work on my notebook in an instant. So I can take notes in a meeting right up to the end, put the PC into standby in the time it takes me to stand up. Or come out of standby at the beginning of a meeting in the time it takes me to sit down. No more "wait a minute for my PC to come back to life.. Sorry for the delay...It's definitely doing something the Hard drive light is flashing."

I don't have to worry about when I did my last backup when I'm using my laptop on a plane and we hit turbulence or on a train and we hit the points. When I am walking around the office with the PC switched on I don't get accosted by the IT technicians demanding I put the thing into standby before I move it. Head Crashes are a thing of the past.

There's no more Defragging. No more losing an hour every month on this tedious maintenance task.

There's no more noise. I can work at home and my wife can listen to the TV and not my laptop.

Then there’s the performance. I can't believe I haven't mentioned the performance. You click on an Icon and a program opens. Just like that. No delay in loading the pst file in outlook all 1GB of it. Bang it's just there on the screen. That 17MB marketing presentation, no problem. Opens in an instant.

If an SSD is this good, and believe me it is, why haven't you upgraded yet?

Solid State is the future of storage and the future is here today