One thing that looks like a no-brainer, is that SSD drives, (Solid State Drive) has become a great thing. 500 Gigs, for 270-300 bucks.
Why not just make that the primary drive?
Alot of my stuff likes C for it's drive.
Anybody else thinking like this?
Yes. I have AMD quad core running Win7 pro w/ 240 Gb SSD C: for OS & primary apps -- ACAD, MS Office, etc. Boots from cold in 30 seconds.
Have 2nd 1 Tb conventional HD partitioned for data & not so important apps.
Have exact dupe of C: on 2nd 240Gb SSD in desk drawer.
This saved my butt when I got stuck (don't ask how) with some ransom-ware claiming to be the FBI and wanting $300 to give me my PC back and not send me to Leavenworth for music piracy. Just swapped disks & then formatted the dirtysunsabitches into oblivion.
Also replaced stock HD w/ an SSD in my Thinkpad. Now I don't worry about it bouncing around in the truck or on the ATV.
I use the Crucial brand. They have a cool gizmo to write image of old HD to new SSD via USB.
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When I bought my new Dell last year, I got it with (2) 500 GB SSD drives. The first one is my C-drive and has windows and all my programs, the second one is my D-drive and contains only data. It is at least 10 times faster than my older workstation with conventional hard drives.
I love it - everything loads almost instantly, even Autocad. I had noticed for some time that the weak link (speed wise, anyway) was the hard drives.
After about a year, I have no problems whatsoever and my computer is almost silent!
SSD is my primary drive. It works great and is super fast. Spinning hard drives are the bottlenecks in modern computers. SSD is the only way to go.
Aloha, Nate:
SSD is the way to go. All our computer have them as primary drive.
I've got a Samsung Pro 512 gb sitting on my desk ready to install.
I was about to post separate thread but ask here.
Did any make Bios changes?
I run a Win 7 pro 32 bit but will install the 64 bit version on SSD.
I'll clone that as a speady reinstall.
> Did any make Bios changes?
I would imagine BIOS changes necessary [or not] would be up to the manufacturer's ability for "plug and play'ability". But if you want to change the machine primary option on boot up sequence I would think you would have to do that yourself. That would go especially if you are setting up the machine as a multi-boot platform.
Have SS drives overcome the limited write-life syndrome they suffered from originally?
Over the winter I upgraded from HDD (Windows XP) to an SSD (Windows 7 Pro) on a Panasonic CF-31.
I am satisfy with the result but not overly excited. It is okay. Was it worth the $800, not sure.
write-life
Our guru that just installed our new "field crew" PC in the bull pen room with a terabyte SSD as primary says "not really". They've come a long ways, but they will still suffer fatigue eventually.
The fix? There's scads of room out there on the drive. As areas fatigue, that data gets moved elsewhere. Makes sense to me. He's never done us wrong.
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Plus factor in the declining quality control of
the conventional hard disks from declining profits.
Indeed. I have a 256GB SSD as the primary drive. I also ripped out the Blu-Ray drive and replaced it with a 1TB hybrid drive (traditional hard drive with SSD cache) as a data storage drive. The only downside is that Windows takes longer to boot now because it spends far too much time acknowledging that second drive.
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One test I read said if you wrote ten gigabytes a day to the drive it would last 19years. I don't consider the life span of them an issue. How many hard drive get used much after five years anyway?