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For what it's worth... if you haven't done this to your pc... | |
| El Tiburon Offer Upgrade  User ID: 28375544  United States03/07/2013 09:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Hitndahedfred User ID: 8963735 United States03/07/2013 09:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I cloned my 1TB HD and put 2 SSD drives in it's place. Quoting: El Tiburon OMFG... My laptop boots win 8 in under 10 seconds... I can go from 0 to GLP in 12 seconds. Every application I open is INSTANT. Why the hell did I not do this earlier. I liken this to when I went from a modem to cable internet. Do yourself a favor and run your boot drive off a SSD. ============================================== This is great till one of the 2 spanned drives fails,, Then you lose ALL your stuff. You need ANOTHER drive equal in size to the sum of the 2 SSDs. Raid,,  Each time a person stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Few are willing to embrace the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. [Robert F. Kennedy] [link to www.stricklychopped.com] [link to www.ghi-engrs.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 35739581 United States03/07/2013 09:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| MissSoulSpark User ID: 33019152 United States03/07/2013 09:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 14458648  Canada03/07/2013 09:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 32084283 United States03/07/2013 09:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I cloned my 1TB HD and put 2 SSD drives in it's place. Quoting: El Tiburon OMFG... My laptop boots win 8 in under 10 seconds... I can go from 0 to GLP in 12 seconds. Every application I open is INSTANT. Why the hell did I not do this earlier. I liken this to when I went from a modem to cable internet. Do yourself a favor and run your boot drive off a SSD. So about ~$325 / 500 GB 2.5" SSD? Cheapest I see on Amazon. I have two 500GB drives on both of my laptops. That's not a cheap upgrade...$1200 for all of them or $600 for just the system drives, unless I just do mine and leave my wife's as is :) |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 14458648 Canada03/07/2013 09:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I cloned my 1TB HD and put 2 SSD drives in it's place. Quoting: El Tiburon OMFG... My laptop boots win 8 in under 10 seconds... I can go from 0 to GLP in 12 seconds. Every application I open is INSTANT. Why the hell did I not do this earlier. I liken this to when I went from a modem to cable internet. Do yourself a favor and run your boot drive off a SSD. So about ~$325 / 500 GB 2.5" SSD? Cheapest I see on Amazon. I have two 500GB drives on both of my laptops. That's not a cheap upgrade...$1200 for all of them or $600 for just the system drives, unless I just do mine and leave my wife's as is :) You could just install the OS to a smaller cheaper SSD and benefit from the quick boots and fast OS response while doing everything else on a conventional platter based drive. I do it and it's still an improvement. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 30742855 United States03/07/2013 09:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I cloned my 1TB HD and put 2 SSD drives in it's place. Quoting: El Tiburon OMFG... My laptop boots win 8 in under 10 seconds... I can go from 0 to GLP in 12 seconds. Every application I open is INSTANT. Why the hell did I not do this earlier. I liken this to when I went from a modem to cable internet. Do yourself a favor and run your boot drive off a SSD. Did that in '09 w/ my i7 upgrade. You RAID 0 (stripe) the 2 drives, right? Only nubs mirror their OS drive ;p Shit my pants when I was able to install Photoshop in under 2 min from a cached IMG file o.0 Next step - 10TB RAID 5 SAS :drooling: |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 35713084  Philippines03/07/2013 10:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Vision Thing User ID: 35667856 United States03/07/2013 10:56 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah that's cute! I should time this one, I am very happy with this laptop I bought recently, it sure boots up fast, Win 7 Professional, 4 GB RAM. It's refurbished and a couple of years old, but no comparison to the outdated castoffs I've had up til now. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 28870983 United States03/07/2013 10:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Unixlike User ID: 35613456 United States03/07/2013 11:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | FWIW, SSD speed is affected by size. Small SSD's are slower than larger ones. However, by the time you reach 150-200gigs the gain begins to be insignificant. The difference is very noticeable between say a 50 gig and a 200gig drive. If you don't have quite a modern computer an SSD will do only a little for you. What kind of SATA ports does the MOBO have? It should be SATAIII for best performance. |
| El Tiburon (OP) User ID: 28375544 United States03/12/2013 12:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yep! Sata III for the 256GB HD replacement mSATA for the 128GB Local Media Drive... I have a NAS (network storage) for the big stuff. And as someone mentioned, just replacing the primary drive with a small and cheap SSD will make all the difference in the world. As for RAID... I am not using any form of RAID. I did not see any advantage to this configuration and the extra wear on both drives is limiting. Also, the "One Button Recovery" wouldn't work in a RAID configuration. I keep the recovery partition on the 2nd "less used" drive. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 36008556  Germany03/12/2013 12:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A solid-state drive (SSD) (also known as a solid-state disk [1][2][3] or electronic disk,[4] though it contains no actual "disk" of any kind) is a data storage device using integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently. SSD technology uses electronic interfaces compatible with traditional block input/output (I/O) hard disk drives. Quoting: [link to en.wikipedia.org] SSDs have no moving mechanical components, which distinguish them from traditional electromechanical magnetic disks such as hard disk drives (HDDs) or floppy disks, which contain spinning disks and movable read/write heads.[5] Compared with electromechanical disks, SSDs are typically less susceptible to physical shock, much quieter, have lower access time, and less latency.[6] However, while the price of SSDs has continued to decline in 2012,[7] SSDs are still about 10 times more expensive per unit of storage than HDDs. Many SSDs use I/O interfaces developed for hard disk drives, thus permitting simple replacement in common applications.[8] |
