
We asked major SSD vendors to send us a selection of drives for use as boot disks for a mainstream business notebook. This way, you get a performance boost when booting and doing everyday tasks, without having to pay the huge price that a terabyte of flash memory would cost.

But as Moore's Law inevitably kicks in, prices have fallen to the point where you can realistically contemplate buying an SDD as a boot disk - just to hold the OS and closely associated applications.

High prices for solid-state disks (SSDs) have historically restricted the business market to enterprises requiring performance for large databases or financial services, where microseconds really matter.
