Do SSDs belong in laptops?

George Crump at InformationWeek wrote an interesting article exploring the question of whether laptops will benefit from the use of solid state disks (SSDs). Crump explored the issue from a few angles, notably in terms of performance, battery life and miscellaneous attributes such as lower weight and completely silent operation.

Of course, regular readers of FierceCIO:TechWatch would know that I'm totally sold on SSDs; the performance advantage is simply too huge for me to want to switch back to a mechanical disk drive. On desktops or laptops, I'll personally recommend an SSD any day. Still, I thought that some of the points presented by Crump will be useful to help IT managers critically evaluate the advantages of a solid state drive for their enterprise.

In conclusion, Crump wrote that "combine that [lower weight and no noise] with overall snappier performance and maybe a little better battery life and you have a winner."

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