I've been saying that for 5 years! If you're still on magnetic media for your primary drive, the absolute biggest improvement in performance you can make to your system is simply swapping in an SSD. Makes old systems feel like brand new.
Hard drives still have their place for mass storage, particularly in RAID arrays, but for running the operating system and programs... can't beat an SSD.
What are the specs of the server that runs RC? I think it's save to say that the OS drive is a SSD, while the mass is HDD? What are the sizes though? Just curious.
Nope, no SSD. What it has are eight 73gb 2.5" 15,000 RPM drives in a RAID 6 array (so capacity of 6 + 2 spares). A number of drives have failed so far, but on this side you'd never know it.
The SSD + Dropbox combo is fantastic. And if you think your computer boots fast try running Windows 7 as a VM on a high powered, SSD equipped, Mac. It is just silly fast.
I won't own another computer without an SSD. Once you have one you don't want to go back.
no questions asked. I swear my last three computers despite massive ram and cpu boosts really didn't seem any faster. then I came to realize the hdd is the bottleneck. a massive bottleneck. it is like jumping 15 years in technology the second you install an ssd. by far the most noticeable upgrade I have ever done.
I'm still to skeered to upgrade my everyday laptop. But we have a few computers around the office running Windows 10 and so far adoption has been MUCH easier than with Windows 8.
Who here uses a hybrid SSD/HDD? Where the unit automatically installs the OS onto the SSD side and everything else like music, photos, files and what not on the HDD side?
I am not fully certain that the SSD stuff is at its finest point yet. Last year I installed a samsung 840, which at the time had superb ratings. Shortly after it was reported that read/writes to older data slowed and a firmware update was needed, several months later that firmware update was reportedly not working and a new one was put out. I love my SSD if for nothing else the massive reduction in boot time, but I still don't have any higher confidence then HDD's, and back up frequently to two HDD and a cloud backup.
One note on cloning. Keep an eye on the size of the hidden boot partition in Windows. For some reason, software like Clonix that comes with Samsung SSD (and I think Acronis), shrink this partition to what is being used. All is well until you try to upgrade to Windows 10 and it complains that the partition is too small. Ditto for trying to use Windows built-in backup. Both error messages are pretty cryptic but they are both due to too small of a boot partition.
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