Wonder how Apple got the Macbook Air so thin? This is a picture of the hard drive used in it. It’s an SSD, but unlike most SSD’s that use the traditional 2.5 or 1.8″ form factor, this SSD is almost “naked” and will fit in a very small space. Other drive manufacturers will replicate this design soon, but Toshiba was the first.

Have a spiffy Solid State Drive (SSD) in your computer. Take these steps to optimize it’s performance – and it all starts with Windows 7. This TweakTown guide offers 8 pages of advice on how to squeeze the most performance of these drives. Unfortunately, early adoptors probably have SSD’s that do not support the TRIM command that will prevent drive performance from degrading over time.