Cheers - that's good advice - I'm guessing a solid state drive is really no good for the OS?

Cheers - that's good advice - I'm guessing a solid state drive is really no good for the OS?

No, not at all. An SSD is faster - but only for booting into Windows and for launching programs. But once you are already into the editing program, a system with an SSD would not be any faster than an otherwise identical system with a conventional hard drive for the OS and programs. In other words, at current prices you're effectively paying a lot of money just to save a few seconds in boot and program launch times.

And my example above pointed out that there are better choices for SSDs than that Vertex 3, especially in terms of reliability.