Speed and reliability
Title sums it up. A SSD can make your computer significantly faster at loading files. With your apps and OS on the SSD your machine feels much faster.
That is what you see on the surface, but a two drive setup is something that has been familiar with Linux users for ages as it provides advantages beyond just raw speed. For one when it comes to updates your user data is someplace else so the whole OS drive can be updated as needed. Second for certain types of uses there is a speed advantage simply by having two drives to spilt up I/O against. Finally if you know what you are doing you can get additional security by careful set up of the system.
For Mac users not into the details it is best to understand it as a speed advantage. The user only needs to realize that his data / home directory is best put on the old magnetic drive.
Dave
What's the benefit of having a SSD along with your HDD? aside from extra memory?
EDIT: Just saw that. #mybad
Title sums it up. A SSD can make your computer significantly faster at loading files. With your apps and OS on the SSD your machine feels much faster.
That is what you see on the surface, but a two drive setup is something that has been familiar with Linux users for ages as it provides advantages beyond just raw speed. For one when it comes to updates your user data is someplace else so the whole OS drive can be updated as needed. Second for certain types of uses there is a speed advantage simply by having two drives to spilt up I/O against. Finally if you know what you are doing you can get additional security by careful set up of the system.
For Mac users not into the details it is best to understand it as a speed advantage. The user only needs to realize that his data / home directory is best put on the old magnetic drive.
Dave