A common complaint about SSDs is the storage limitation imposed by their high cost-to-capacity ratio. Personally, I find that as long as I keep my media catalog on an external drive, 80GB is more than enough for my OS, applications, settings, documents, and a useful subset of my media library. Computers used strictly for business will rarely even come close to filling an 80GB drive.

Even though the capacities of SSDs and traditional disks are both rapidly expanding, traditional drives will maintain their price advantage for the foreseeable future. However, when you compare spending a few hundred dollars to the time and frustration you'll save over the next few years, you'll find that solid state disks are downright cheap.

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Michael Scalisi is an IT manager based in Alameda, California.