On 16/10/16 09:16, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 16/10/16 06:23, Bod wrote:
On 16/10/2016 02:18, John Rumm wrote:
On 15/10/2016 09:54, Bod wrote:
On 15/10/2016 09:44, alan_m wrote:
On 15/10/2016 01:23, David Paste wrote:
am I barking up the
wrong tree to assume an SSD will improve the snappiness of the user
interface?)


When I replaced a traditional hard disk in my 5 year old laptop with a
SSD I noticed a faster start up but for day to day use no overall
difference in speed.




Hmm! that hasn't been my experience. I've changed several laptops to
SSDs and *everything* is much snappier.

Yup same here... In fact I find the improvement in responsiveness and
application start times is more impressive than the reduced boot time.

Indeed. Now that SSD prices have become more affordable, installing an
SSD for your system drive is probably the most cost effective method of
speeding up any computer.

Certainly was here.

Then the MB went and I got a brand new one - same budget range but 6
years on. It was only a couple of times faster.


But the SSD made everything to do with starting new appplications much
much faster.

Running the apps wasn't really affected as I had a lot of RAM and so it
never swapped.

Finally years too late, I have a personal computer that runs a windowed
GUI as fast as CP/M used to run a text screen, like I think a personal
computer should.




The main thing with SSDs is effectively zero seek time which is great
for random access (most OS boots and app startups). Even if the SSD
cannot shovel raw data any faster than a disc, it's a massive win.

The only time I got bitten was a crap Crucial SSD drive that died in
short order. Stuck with Sandisk and Plextor and have not been disappointed.