Almost all new video cameras utilize some form of solid state media, like SD, CF, or SxS cards. That's not necessarily the case with computers, however. Many of us are familiar with the clicking and whirring of traditional hard drives, but in the not-too-distant future, most of our devices will instead be using an SSD (or Solid State Drive) to store information. The big advantage to using an SSD as your main system drive (where all of your programs and the operating system is installed), is that since there aren't any moving parts, read times can be much faster. John Hess, over at FilmmakerIQ, recently replaced the main hard drive on his Windows machine with an SSD drive to speed up his system. Watch his process and see some benchmarks in the video below.
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