Been having slow HDD access issues with RDWorks, Corel, EZCAD locking up and boot time taking about 2-3 minutes, slowness in application execution in general etc.
Cleaned up as much stuff as possible, memory was already maxed out at 16gb but station still had poor performance.
Based on the HDD access going through the roof and bogging down I figured my hdd was failing.
I dropped by Frys and was going to get a new 1 TB HDD and replace it.
I notice however a whole row of SSD's... aka Solid State Drives which basically interface with my existing HDD controller.
In other words its an overgrown memory stick.
Long story short, I bought a 980 GB SDD for $225.00.
End result, Boot up time about 20 seconds. Application execution darn near instant.
Don't want to buy a new computer, this is a sure fire winner in my book.
-John