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Demartek Puts SSDs into Production

We have been testing SSD technology for quite a while in our lab, so I decided that it was time to put some SSDs into production at Demartek. Over the 2010 Christmas and New Year’s holidays, we installed SSDs as boot drives in the desktop computers of all our staff, as well as in our production file server. At the same time, we upgraded the file server to Windows Server 2008 R2 from the previous version of Windows Server.

We previously upgraded our desktop computers to Windows 7 (64-bit) back in November of 2009. We opted for the Corsair Force F120 SSDs, which have 120GB of available capacity (111.79GB formatted), good read and write speeds, and are compatible with our desktop computer SATA II interfaces. Our desktop computers are currently using about one-third of the capacity of these boot drives for the operating system and applications, and our file server is using about one-fourth of the capacity of the boot drive, leaving plenty of room to add new applications...

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