Averages are for Page Field, which is 4 miles from Fort Myers.
Until recently, PC buyers had very little choice about what kind of storage to get in a laptop or desktop. If you bought an ultraportable, you likely had a solid-state drive (SSD) as the primary drive (C: on Windows, Macintosh HD on a Mac). Every other desktop or laptop form factor had a hard disk drive (HDD). Now, you can configure your system with either an HDD or SSD, or in some cases both.
The new SSD is a 512GB Crucial M4 2.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s (SATA III). How we test. In order to record a what difference will a SSD make to a laptop, we put the existing Hitachi Travelstar 5K320 HDD through several tests to measure the previous 'sluggish' performance. Next, we cloned the hard drive and copied its contents to the new Crucial M4 SSD.