I run my router at G because N never worked right for me on Linux.

I put /home on a 500 GB drive.

And today I noticed my 1TB Windows drive is dead, and my left speaker port doesn't work.

One of my 500GB drives was dead too. I think my old computer was eating them.

I assumed it was bad, since I was having lots of problems when I tried to run RAID5.

My new GPU turned out to be so big for my outdated motherboard that it blocks a SATA port, and I'm only left with one now.

Did you get the i7 seperately or as part of a bundle ?

Those intel SSDs are some of the slowest out there. I've seen benchmarks and reviews not getting much more speed out of them than a WD Raptor drive.

I got room for 4 * 8GB on the motherboard I bought. Perhaps it time I got the other 2 sticks.

Is that partly why it boots so fast ?

10600 = 1333

The one I got ($150 retail, but $60 after rebates) has excellent reliability rankings. I already put one of them in my laptop, and speeds are incredible compared to any traditional hard drive I've ever used. Yes, they are slower than many of the OCZ drives, but reviews are flooded with people complaining about those crashing after six or twelve months.

The Intel SSD did have a bad bug with an older firmware that nuked drives, but that's since been resolved.

The reviews I saw, said that many of the Intell SSDs are only getting 60MB/s and the latency is rather high for an SSD, close to that of a WD Raptor. My Seagate 7200.12's get 110MB/s.

I have a RAID 0 SSD at work. Only really slow with that box IO wise is network because the domain controllers are being slow.

Before using SSD I already had a difference partition for the O.S. So now I have a 32GB SSD only for the O.S, the rest I have it in a normal HHD. You should try, the difference is incredible. What I need to fix now is that I can listen my normal HHD turning on when I need some programs that are stored in there. I think Windows is turning on and off the HHD when needed but this will definitely reduce its life.

I started running out of space on my laptop with a 160G drive. Ended up upgrading to a 500GB Hybrid Seagate drive. Its quite nice. Booting, and starting commonly used apps tends to be SSD fast because of the 4GB flash cache on the drive.

I really can't do less than probably 200-250GB on my laptop. I'm basically waiting till SSDs hit $1/GB or less before I can reasonably thing about buying a SSD for my laptop.

DDR memory runs at a lower actual Hz than the high numbers claim, instead to reach an effective Hz of the higher number, it sends down data multiple times per clock.