MrWrenchey
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I recommend an SSD more than anything else to speed up your computer. Especially if you're running a 5400 rpm drive, you'll notice a RIDICULOUS speed improvement. I bought my first one a few years ago when they were still about $1 a GB, but now they're about half that.
As far as what others have said about "data recovery," if you aren't backing up your data already, that's what you should look into first and foremost. Get yourself an external hard drive and use it SOLELY FOR A BACKUP DRIVE. I've met too many people that are angry at computers because their hard drive failed and they can't get their data back. Just pay the $75 for a TB external and get it over with.
Not to mention the failure rate of SSDs is supposed to be astronomically low, if I recall correctly... A quick Google reminded me I saw this on slashdot about a year ago: SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% - Slashdot. Oddly enough, that link pretty much matches up with what polarity has given as his failure rate for SSDs!
As far as what others have said about "data recovery," if you aren't backing up your data already, that's what you should look into first and foremost. Get yourself an external hard drive and use it SOLELY FOR A BACKUP DRIVE. I've met too many people that are angry at computers because their hard drive failed and they can't get their data back. Just pay the $75 for a TB external and get it over with.
Not to mention the failure rate of SSDs is supposed to be astronomically low, if I recall correctly... A quick Google reminded me I saw this on slashdot about a year ago: SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5% - Slashdot. Oddly enough, that link pretty much matches up with what polarity has given as his failure rate for SSDs!