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T61 with Kingston SSDnow V series (SNV425-S2/128GB). It's kind of the ghetto of medium-sized SSDs (especially compared to the OCZ Velocity2 in my desktop PC), but it was only $150 after rebate, and it's allegedly one of the better-performing drives under Vista, so I can't really complain. I agonized between 8 gigs of ram and a 7200rpm drive, or 4 gigs of ram and the SSD, realized that I rarely hit more than 6 gigs of use on my desktop PC, and decided I'd get more bang per buck with the SSD than the additional 4 gigs of ram.

When I first installed it, I went nuts for a couple of days trying to figure out why Ubuntu 10.10 needed ~7 seconds to boot from POST to login prompt, and another 3-4 seconds after that to stabilize, but Vista Business needed almost FORTY SECONDS to boot from POST to login, and another 20-30 seconds after that to stabilize enough to be useful. ESPECIALLY since I had similar boot times with my desktop PC in Ubuntu 10.10, but Win7 boots in about 8 seconds.

I eventually found the culprit: the copy of Norton Antivirus installed from the Lenovo restore disk. Once I uninstalled it, my boot time dropped to about 12-15 seconds from POST to login, and 4-5 seconds after that to stabilize. It's *unreal* just how badly NAV slowed down the boot times and general performance.

So is your problem NAV? Or, a setting in NAV that tells it to scan the boot drive, or to scan removable media, on startup? (I wouldn't put it past NAV to mistake a SSD for removable media.)