New netbook and drive

My old Acer Aspire One, which I used constantly, finally decided to pack it in. It was one of the originals, with the very slow custom SSD board.

I picked up one of the new D255's, which uses a 250 Gig 2.5 inch laptop drive. Now, for me, the entire point of a netbook is that it's rugged: I shouldn't have to worry about head crashed from bopping it around that much. Since I take the little netbook with me everywhere, this is a concern.

So, I picked up an OCZ Vertex II drive. Well, holey moley! GNU/Linux boots very very quickly on it, sub 10 seconds, and shutdown's even faster. Suspend and resume is super fast too: about a second for each.