OCZ Vertex LE

As Wolf (semi)correctly guessed, my small update is an SSD. An OCZ Vertex 100gb LE SSD to be precise. As I'm sure you all know, they come in 2.5" form-factor ;)

First impressions - small, very light. Is this thing REALLY a drive that can take 100gb of data?
Installed it two days ago but a combination of sleep/long working hours (again) prevent me from testing properly.

But. OH. MY. GOD. The speed is OUT OF THIS WORLD. The time it takes windows to boot to desktop is about 12 seconds, everything responds BLAZINGLY FAST. One odd thing is that you don't hear it working (obviously) so that normal (and sometimes comforting) sound we're all used to of a hard drive churning away to run your application is now history. You just have to get used to very silent and lightning fast performance.

More later (am at work still) - but next post I'll tell you about how I was trying to save myself time installing it, but as Murphy's Law dictates, that cost me more time and effort and I ended up just installing windows fresh on the drive.

Stay tuned!