Originally Posted by
Mornington Crescent
FWIW I had an Asus 900 solid state drive and it was too slow for me.
Now have a Tosh nb200-10z which has a normal hard drive and its great.
Too slow for
Windows, actually, which does all sorts of extraneous disk access as it works. I have the 1000 model, with similar spec SSDs, and it's much happier with Linux. (Ubuntu Netbook Remix in this case, but there are others.) In this case I can see why the OP would want a standard HDD.