I just finished setting up a new PC with a 250gb SSD drive. 26 seconds from power on to ready to go. It makes my old XP machine seem like a dinosaur.
I just finished setting up a new PC with a 250gb SSD drive. 26 seconds from power on to ready to go. It makes my old XP machine seem like a dinosaur.
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I have been thinking about installing one in my PC, just have not done it.
The price for SSDs have really come down in the last few months.
The speed of loading some software is just unreal, it is just kind of there when you hit the icon.
I have had an SSD since 2011 and yes, they are fast! It is the best upgrade to do to any PC I have ever found. There are some really good deals right now and you can get brand name 256GB SSDs for $100 or so. You really want to check reviews before buying as some SSDs are known to die prematurely. Some folks will buy both an SSD and a hard drive and put all their data on the hard drive. The SSD is only for the OS and programs. This doesn't work so well on most laptops, but will work on most desktops.
I go back to the early days of AutoCad where you could have breakfast and a smoke in less time than it took to render a drawing. The speed of things today is unreal!
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Will Rogers
I built a new PC this year and spec'd a Samsung 500 GB SSD for the OS and I was also floored by the performance gain. If I didn't have so many toys on my woodworking wannalist, I'd be looking hard at buying the 1 TB version, which is $439.99 right now.
Brett
Peters Creek, Alaska
Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. — Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Brett
Peters Creek, Alaska
Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. — Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
I have to say, I am NOT a computer guy so I really have no idea but I have a new machine with no SSD and I am up and working in seconds.. of course the machine is still booting in the background but I can get up, boot a browser, SU, and so on in no time. Literally within 5 seconds of hitting enter with my password at log-in I am looking at my desktop and its active (not sitting there un-clickable).
I really toiled with the SSD option when I bought this machine and I cant honestly say Ive ever felt I really needed to be any faster.
Where they really excel is as a swapfile drive. Especially when doing video files in HDMI.
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8.1, and no, Im talking from full shutdown. I cant say that Ive ever timed it but I can say Ive never found myself sitting there saying "COME ON!!" and ready to pound on the desk like I used to. I come from an old vista machine where I would boot it, and go make coffee, go to the bathroom, come back, logon, then go do something else.. Not the case.
I haven't timed it but my personal laptop is up and running before the Win 7 startup screen finishes spinning together the 4 window panes. Its actually slower to restart from hibernation by maybe 2 seconds.
My wife and daughter are getting SSDs for Christmas. Hoping it breathes new life into my daughters aging cheap laptop, but they'll both appreciate the battery life.
I have SSDs in my machines and I find they boot significantly faster. I'm sold on them.
Mike
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Speaking of dinosaurs, I have been involved in the IT field a really really long time, way back in 1986 Intel (yes Intel) was producing a SSD for IBM mainframe computers that emulated the IBM 3380 disk drive. The unit was the size of four refrigerators put together, IIRC had 1.3 gigabytes of storage, everything old is new again