On Saturday, 15 October 2016 01:23:15 UTC+1, David Paste wrote:
For the average user (web, email, music, movies, etc), is there going
to be any difference between these two drives? I googled and saw pages
containing answers, but they all merged into one mass of numbers which
frankly I didn't fully understand.

Simple answers would be most appreciated.

Any other brand worth looking at?

(It'll be replacing a 5200 rpm drive in a new-to-me laptop running
Ubuntu for the shed, currently is is a bit creaky, am I barking up the
wrong tree to assume an SSD will improve the snappiness of the user
interface?)

Thank you in advance.
Linux has a prefetch problem I have no real idea about but I think it screws with the boot up when stray emf bursts occur.

Sequential prefetching is a well established technique for improving I/O performance. Prefetching algorithm ... challenged by many unexpected problems.

To meet the new demands ... safe, flexible, simple, scalable yet efficient is desired. He demonstrates how it handles ... common read ahead issues to help readers building both theoretical and practical views of sequential prefetching.

http://www.ece.eng.wayne.edu/~sjiang...-readahead.pdf

For me that is atmospherics in which case, hopefully, a direct writing capability will minimise any lost boots and bridge software problems.

Or should do. But you will of course be using the archive tool regularly to store folders on your second spare?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/29518...simple-backup/ sounds more florid than useful. What I read was from StackOverload and beyond my paygrade.