"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Friday, 22 February 2019 17:48:57 UTC, newshound wrote:
On 22/02/2019 10:45, Robin wrote:
On 22/02/2019 09:17, Bob Eager wrote:

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I've not seen the need for an SSD as it boots really fast (but boots
rarely). The last time I rebooted was a couple of weeks ago, when we
had
an extended power cut. Happy to have an SSD in the laptop, but
otherwise
I see no need.


if one wants a really quiet PC an SSD avoids even the little noise from
a quiet HDD on anti-vibration mounts

It's the fan that is noisy on mine. I know you can go fanless (or water
cooled).

I can hardly hear my mac mini or my iMac fans they both have fans that
spin slowly as the design is better as it just doesn't need brute force
using cheap fans to cool it.

Same with my intel i5 cpu fan. Its so quiet that when I was
assembling the current system, I had to look closely at the
fan to see that it was in fact spinning up. And no, I'm not deaf.