http://www.kogan.com/au/buy/kogan-256gb-6gbs-solid-state-drive/ Kogan is selling a 256G SATA flash storage device with Intel flash (IE flash that shouldn't lose your data) for $139. Flash storage will make your system a lot faster. Boot time will be improved a lot, particularly if you use systemd and have a multi-core CPU (in which case CPU won't be a bottleneck and most of the boot time will be disk IO). The time taken to login to a GUI environment will be a lot faster too, last time I timed it a flash device halved the time from entering a password in KDM to having KDE ready to use. Flash storage also makes your system a lot quieter, you might not realise the noise from a constantly spinning hard drive until it goes away. If you have $139 to spend on an upgrade to a desktop system then this is probably the best option. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/