Certainly you asked the question what solution to adopt in order to have a faster hard disk because we all know that data transfer of the hard disk is still the slowest component of a current system, of any may be, desktop or laptop, but in the latter case we can find different hard drive or an SSD, not applicable to a multitude of solutions.

The most "simple" solution would be the purchasing of an SSD unit which halves the charge time of an operating system like Windows 7 due to much lower access time than of a traditional hard disk: 0.5 to 2 ms from an average of 8.5 milliseconds. The main problem here is of course the price / capacity storage ratio which makes it totally contraindicated for persons with a normal pocket: for instance Intel SSD X25-V costs around $130 or $125 for a capacity of 40 GB, which is totally insufficient when it comes to Windows 7, which consumes about 7 GB for complete installation, not to mention the Microsoft Office or any other specialized software and the SSD will be full.

To remain throughout the performance solutions segment we should talk about the option of an RAID 0 solutions on SSD units, which will provide an incredibly high speed so that you will remove this problem, but all for a price that is definitely quite difficult to access. The RAID solution is quite affordable these days because in the all-new platform launched by Intel and AMD we can find the integrated controller. If however you managed to buy two or more SSDs for safety, we advise you to take the actual storage and a bigger hard disk for it following to install on the SSD type units the operating system and programs or games that you need, given that four units of 40 GB offers 160 GB storage. The best solution for standard-income people has still remained to purchase some conventional hard disks and mounting them on the RAID (even number for RAID 0, multiple of 2), which is offering high speed with a storage capacity that is very solid. If you are stressed at the thought that somehow you will lose valuable information (because yes, this will happen if one of the mounted disk in the RAID 0 system is broken) you will have to purchase an additional storage unit, that you will not install on the RAID and on which you'll save all the important information, or if you prefer, for an additional cost you can do a RAID 0 +1 or 5 type, to ensure back-up for the matrix of type 0.

There is also the solution to purchase a hard disk with 10,000 rotations per minute and a quite low access time but rather it are suitable for business background because it have a pretty “solid” price also and offer primarily high reliability- this feature making it suitable for the environment that we talked above because the high speed is still in the advantage of SSDs.