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Hi all
I was a bit sceptical of SSD's until I tried one.
I know that in fact for most "normal user" machines these days the bottleneck isn't actually CPU power or even RAM but SLOW DISKS.
I was sceptical of the performance improvement claims were made for SSD's - but I'd done a bit of overtime recently so had a little spare cash and consequently I bought one of the newer generation of SSD's to appear --SAMSUNG 120GB and put it in the Netbook described below.
My tiny aspire 1 netbook with a Samsung SSD (they might not be the cheapest - but aren't the most expensive but DO seem the fastest!!) and 4GB of RAM in it with W8 running - even connected to a decent large monitor seems to run slicker than a Sony Vaio 15.5 inch laptop with an I5 processor and 8 GB of memory running W7 but with a normal laptop HDD.
I suspect the Sony has a really slow 5400 RPM disk in it -- probably to conserve power as the faster spinners consume more juice.
I don't even LIKE using the better laptop now -- until I put an SSD in it and change to W8.
I'm using the bas Windows to GO system installed on the netbooks internal SSD. Works fine.
So if you haven't taken the leap to SSD IT'S WORTH IT - but make sure your PC has sufficient RAM -- I'd suggest even a tiny computer should be fitted with a minimum of 4GB -- 4GB single DDR3 modules are cheap both for PC's and desktops. Surprisingly DDR2 (the older type) is more expensive and much harder to source single 4GB modules.
Cheers
jimbo
I was a bit sceptical of SSD's until I tried one.
I know that in fact for most "normal user" machines these days the bottleneck isn't actually CPU power or even RAM but SLOW DISKS.
I was sceptical of the performance improvement claims were made for SSD's - but I'd done a bit of overtime recently so had a little spare cash and consequently I bought one of the newer generation of SSD's to appear --SAMSUNG 120GB and put it in the Netbook described below.
My tiny aspire 1 netbook with a Samsung SSD (they might not be the cheapest - but aren't the most expensive but DO seem the fastest!!) and 4GB of RAM in it with W8 running - even connected to a decent large monitor seems to run slicker than a Sony Vaio 15.5 inch laptop with an I5 processor and 8 GB of memory running W7 but with a normal laptop HDD.
I suspect the Sony has a really slow 5400 RPM disk in it -- probably to conserve power as the faster spinners consume more juice.
I don't even LIKE using the better laptop now -- until I put an SSD in it and change to W8.
I'm using the bas Windows to GO system installed on the netbooks internal SSD. Works fine.
So if you haven't taken the leap to SSD IT'S WORTH IT - but make sure your PC has sufficient RAM -- I'd suggest even a tiny computer should be fitted with a minimum of 4GB -- 4GB single DDR3 modules are cheap both for PC's and desktops. Surprisingly DDR2 (the older type) is more expensive and much harder to source single 4GB modules.
Cheers
jimbo
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Linux Centos 7, W8.1, W7, W2K3 Server W10
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 1 X LG 40 inch TV
- Hard Drives
- SSD's * 3 (Samsung 840 series) 250 GB
2 X 3 TB sata
5 X 1 TB sata
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- 0.12 GB/s (120Mb/s)