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Is it worth to buy a SSD for my laptop?
I am having Dell XPS 15 L502x.
Intel Core i7, 8GB 1333Mhz RAM, 2GB nVidia 540m Gt, 750GB 5400rpm SSD, Win7 HP and LinuxMint 14.
My Laptop is one year old. My HDD's write speed never exceeded 28MB/s. Now it got drastically reduced to 17MB/s . My Lap takes nearly 90 seconds to reach desktop which is far worser than before . After reading lot of reviews, opinions and user feedback, I have concluded that HDD is biggest bottleneck of XPS 15. Also my HDD goes upto 48 Celcius at Idle and 57 Celcius while gaming .
Some people say that switching to SSD will propel XPS performance to a great extend. So What about getting 200GB SSD for program files and a 500GB external HDD for media files(since i cant have both in a laptop) ?
Please tell me, if you have a better suggestion.