"Bod" wrote in message
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On 16/10/2016 09:40, T i m wrote:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 02:24:49 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

On 15/10/2016 11:38, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
David Paste wrote:
(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?)

Dunno. Bought a new laptop and changed to an SSD. Which totally
transformed the start up time.

Decided to do the same with an older smaller and more basic one I use
for
car stuff, and it made little or no difference.

Sometimes its like fixing a congestion point on a road - that traffic
jam just moves to the next slowest junction. Old machines may be disk
limited, but you may find the CPU is not far behind - so you clear the
first problem, and then find that its still slow but now for a different
reason (i.e. not have the CPU grunt).

+1

I've probably done 10 SSD 'upgrades' now and the improvement in
general performance ranges from 'remarkable to 'not sure it was worth
it' (especially if you also consider the wasted time, cost and
capacity loss).

The best idea is to just use a small 60 or 120GB SSD only for your
*system* drive.

Not if you hardly ever start the system and don’t close
apps, leave them running until you do a full reboot.

That size is now very affordable.

Irrelevant to whether its worth doing.

That's what I do.

More fool you.