Sandisk 120GB Ultra SSD - 2.5" SATA-II - Read 280MB/s Write 270MB/s - 3 Year Warranty for £65.98 @ Ebuyer
Sandisk 120GB Ultra SSD - 2.5" SATA-II - Read 280MB/s Write 270MB/s - 3 Year Warranty for £65.98 @ Ebuyer
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It will make the only one difference-your notebook will boot faster a lot. Nothing other noticeable. And you will loose space.
It makes me laugh how many people want to upgrade to ssd...believing in miracle,that their old computer will be magically fast- it will not!
Yes it will, apps load alot faster.
SSD is a massive upgrade from mechanical drives!
Just a myth, believe me. Tried it, no miracles . If your computer is good,apps are loading fast anyway. Processor and graphics card is most impotant,only then hard drive. Working with computers for good 17 years...and know my bussiness well.
In the event you're not trolling.. Whilst a very slow atom netbook won't see much improvement (because they're slow anyway) for most low spec desktops and even ULV laptops the difference is dramatic. I don't just work with computers, I build them - laptops, HTPCs, gaming rigs and heavy duty workstations for highly parallelized number crunching. I'm also a developer - of some twenty years writing everything from drivers to UI for a multinational manufacturer of nanotechnology systems. So willy waving out of the way - the simple fact is that in most PCs the slowest thing in there is the hard drive and so reducing access times to nil and boosting read/write rates (especially for 4k read/writes) can have a dramatic impact. For example, an old Q6600 build machine I have here can build 17 million lines of code in ten minutes. It took forty with a RAID 0 array of two F1s (considered a decent drive by many). Slow seeks and contention did not help, obviously.
I'm sick of these stupid hyperbolic comments from people claiming it's a "myth" when the rest of us see it simply as "truth". If you want to debate the value for a specific application - great - or if you're claiming they're not your cup of tea - also great - but please stop making stupid large sweeping statements without backing it up with some evidence or explanation to the contrary. It makes you look dumb and misinforms others.
I apologize if this seems harsh but I thought it warranted and I've seen far too much of this on these SSD threads of late. I guess it just grinds my gears eh?
Edited By: dangel on May 18, 2012 15:20
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Jump to unread Post a CommentConsidering getting one for my netbook - would it make any difference? It's only a single-core 1.66GHz Atom N450, 2GB 800MHz RAM. Would the upgrade improve performance noticeably?
Considering getting one for my netbook - would it make any difference? It's only a single-core 1.66GHz Atom N450, 2GB 800MHz RAM. Would the upgrade improve performance noticeably?
Be sure that your netbook has a 2.5" drive and not a 1.8".
Considering getting one for my netbook - would it make any difference? It's only a single-core 1.66GHz Atom N450, 2GB 800MHz RAM. Would the upgrade improve performance noticeably?
It will make the only one difference-your notebook will boot faster a lot. Nothing other noticeable. And you will loose space.
It makes me laugh how many people want to upgrade to ssd...believing in miracle,that their old computer will be magically fast- it will not!
Considering getting one for my netbook - would it make any difference? It's only a single-core 1.66GHz Atom N450, 2GB 800MHz RAM. Would the upgrade improve performance noticeably?
It will make the only one difference-your notebook will boot faster a lot. Nothing other noticeable. And you will loose space.
It makes me laugh how many people want to upgrade to ssd...believing in miracle,that their old computer will be magically fast- it will not!
Unless at any point after you've booted you also read/write from the drive. Say opening applications. What exactly is it you use your computer for? An overpriced digital photo frame, just staring at the desktop.
They do exactly what they are supposed to do, decrease I/O bottle necking caused by the moving part hard drives they replace.
It will make the only one difference-your notebook will boot faster a lot. Nothing other noticeable. And you will loose space.
It makes me laugh how many people want to upgrade to ssd...believing in miracle,that their old computer will be magically fast- it will not!
Yes it will, apps load alot faster.
SSD is a massive upgrade from mechanical drives!
Considering getting one for my netbook - would it make any difference? It's only a single-core 1.66GHz Atom N450, 2GB 800MHz RAM. Would the upgrade improve performance noticeably?
Be sure that your netbook has a 2.5" drive and not a 1.8".
Ah yes, good point. I have been googling to try and found out, even opened it up, but I'm not sure. Any tips? It's an eMachines e350 by the way.
Probably unnecessary anyway, it's not a work horse, only use it for browsing/music/word processing when out and about.
Considering getting one for my netbook - would it make any difference? It's only a single-core 1.66GHz Atom N450, 2GB 800MHz RAM. Would the upgrade improve performance noticeably?
It will make the only one difference-your notebook will boot faster a lot. Nothing other noticeable. And you will loose space.
It makes me laugh how many people want to upgrade to ssd...believing in miracle,that their old computer will be magically fast- it will not!
Thanks for your helpful comment :| As a matter of fact, I upgraded my desktop to an SSD and yes, it was 'magically' faster (in more respects than boot time). I was simply asking if it would make any difference to my NETbook (not notebook as you said) based on people's experience. It only has 160GB as it is, so I wouldn't be losing that much space.
Considering getting one for my netbook - would it make any difference? It's only a single-core 1.66GHz Atom N450, 2GB 800MHz RAM. Would the upgrade improve performance noticeably?
It will make the only one difference-your notebook will boot faster a lot. Nothing other noticeable. And you will loose space.
It makes me laugh how many people want to upgrade to ssd...believing in miracle,that their old computer will be magically fast- it will not!
Yes, it would make no difference to application loading times, would it?
Oh wait...
Edited By: jukkie on May 18, 2012 15:00
It will make the only one difference-your notebook will boot faster a lot. Nothing other noticeable. And you will loose space.
It makes me laugh how many people want to upgrade to ssd...believing in miracle,that their old computer will be magically fast- it will not!
Yes it will, apps load alot faster.
SSD is a massive upgrade from mechanical drives!
Just a myth, believe me. Tried it, no miracles . If your computer is good,apps are loading fast anyway. Processor and graphics card is most impotant,only then hard drive. Working with computers for good 17 years...and know my bussiness well.
It will make the only one difference-your notebook will boot faster a lot. Nothing other noticeable. And you will loose space.
It makes me laugh how many people want to upgrade to ssd...believing in miracle,that their old computer will be magically fast- it will not!
Yes it will, apps load alot faster.
SSD is a massive upgrade from mechanical drives!
Just a myth, believe me. Tried it, no miracles . If your computer is good,apps are loading fast anyway. Processor and graphics card is most impotant,only then hard drive. Working with computers for good 17 years...and know my bussiness well.
I've been in the business for 30 years and to a certain extent I do agree with you. The set-up of your machine can make a marked difference with it's existing hardware.
Doing the same with SSD will undoubtedly make some noticeable difference depending upon what you buy and what hardware you are putting it into, which could still easily be 50%, which is a lot in anybodies language.
It will make the only one difference-your notebook will boot faster a lot. Nothing other noticeable. And you will loose space.
It makes me laugh how many people want to upgrade to ssd...believing in miracle,that their old computer will be magically fast- it will not!
Yes it will, apps load alot faster.
SSD is a massive upgrade from mechanical drives!
Just a myth, believe me. Tried it, no miracles . If your computer is good,apps are loading fast anyway. Processor and graphics card is most impotant,only then hard drive. Working with computers for good 17 years...and know my bussiness well.
I've tried it too, and my D630 boots in under 30 seconds and is ready to work. It takes 15 minutes with my regular old HDD.
I also have one in my home PC and the OS is very smooth and all the little delays are gone.
I also work with computers.
Edited By: jamesdew on May 18, 2012 15:09
It will make the only one difference-your notebook will boot faster a lot. Nothing other noticeable. And you will loose space.
It makes me laugh how many people want to upgrade to ssd...believing in miracle,that their old computer will be magically fast- it will not!
Yes it will, apps load alot faster.
SSD is a massive upgrade from mechanical drives!
Just a myth, believe me. Tried it, no miracles . If your computer is good,apps are loading fast anyway. Processor and graphics card is most impotant,only then hard drive. Working with computers for good 17 years...and know my bussiness well.
In the event you're not trolling.. Whilst a very slow atom netbook won't see much improvement (because they're slow anyway) for most low spec desktops and even ULV laptops the difference is dramatic. I don't just work with computers, I build them - laptops, HTPCs, gaming rigs and heavy duty workstations for highly parallelized number crunching. I'm also a developer - of some twenty years writing everything from drivers to UI for a multinational manufacturer of nanotechnology systems. So willy waving out of the way - the simple fact is that in most PCs the slowest thing in there is the hard drive and so reducing access times to nil and boosting read/write rates (especially for 4k read/writes) can have a dramatic impact. For example, an old Q6600 build machine I have here can build 17 million lines of code in ten minutes. It took forty with a RAID 0 array of two F1s (considered a decent drive by many). Slow seeks and contention did not help, obviously.
I'm sick of these stupid hyperbolic comments from people claiming it's a "myth" when the rest of us see it simply as "truth". If you want to debate the value for a specific application - great - or if you're claiming they're not your cup of tea - also great - but please stop making stupid large sweeping statements without backing it up with some evidence or explanation to the contrary. It makes you look dumb and misinforms others.
I apologize if this seems harsh but I thought it warranted and I've seen far too much of this on these SSD threads of late. I guess it just grinds my gears eh?
Edited By: dangel on May 18, 2012 15:20