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I love my new SSD drive

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I just installed a solid state drive from Other World Computing, and man is it FAST. I really feel the difference in my MacBook. Leopard starts up in under 30 seconds, easy. I feel cramped being confined to 120 GB (larger sizes are available but trés cher), but I intend to replace the optical drive with an OptiBay so I can keep the crucial every day stuff on the boot drive and then space-consuming non-everyday stuff (iPhoto Library, software installers, etc) on the secondary drive.

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