tomminater :
Do you have any suggestions on an affordable 120gb ssd? And also, the SSD would make operations on the OS much faster?
I highly recommend a SSD for the os and more.
Forget affordability, buy based on reliability.
Today Intel and Samsung seem to be tops in that regard.
They make their own nand chips and can do a better job of validation.
Ignore synthetic benchmarks. They bear no resemblance to what an os and a desktop user does.
All modern SSD's perform nearly the same. That is FAST...
I would look at Intel 330 or Samsung830.
You might get a good deal on samsung 830 if they liquidate inventory to make room for the 840.