Mobility vs. High Performance Solid State HD

I am looking into an E4200 with the SU9400 (1.4) processor. I understand that individually the high performance would be faster, however when assessing its speed as a whole system (the E4200), is there much of a "real life" value to getting the faster HD? Is the speed of the high performance HD constrained by the speed of the processor?

 

depends on the workload. but even while you may max out the processor, this would still mean you get your system to max speed possible.

it means a drastic performance gain. it did in my system, which has a 1.2ghz processor.

 

The mobility and performance SSDs are most likely the first-gen Samsung MLC and the second-gen Samsung SLC SSDs. Assuming this is correct (and I'm fairly certain it is), there is almost no performance difference between the two; the SLC is about 10MB/s faster in sequential read and write and a tad bit faster in IO. Some say that the SLC drive feels "snappier", but I don't really feel a difference between my Samsung MLC and SLC. The big benefit of the SLC drive is that it'll probably last way longer.