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SSDs work for almost everyone because so much has migrated to the cloud. You no longer need to save a few Gb of music locally. Video? we stream.
I have gobs of storage on my desktop because I have a tower with lots of HDD bays - about 6 TB in total. So what do I use most of the time? My Surface Pro 3, which has 128 GB plus another 64 from a micro card slot. Most of the storage is empty because I work from the cloud.
Interestingly, SSD are much faster, except when they're not. I have a fast SSD (yes, they very widely in effective speed) for boot on my desktop, but hardly notice a difference in bootup time. It still takes a minute or so for POST and Windows start.
Interestingly, SSD are much faster, except when they're not. I have a fast SSD (yes, they very widely in effective speed) for boot on my desktop, but hardly notice a difference in bootup time. It still takes a minute or so for POST and Windows start.
Is it SATA3 drive and ports? Mine doesn't take more than 15 seconds. Sleep mode is like the monitor is just asleep.
^, yes, SATA3 on its own channel. But because of the sofware that I have, lots loads on startup, so it takes a bit of time. Keep in mind it is a desktop with 16 gig memory, good separate video card, a number of SATA channels, and lots of USB headers. Each of these must initialize and be checked in POST, so it takes time.
My laptops, with much less hardware to deal with, boot fast. I just mentioned the issue to point out that not all machines are created equally. Those with more hardware complexity (did I mention I build my own?) may not have as much benefit from a SSD. Note that I did not benchmark before and after. Maybe I saved some time, but it is not apparent to me, a casual observer.
Solid state drives are expensive for higher capacity. 256 GB is pretty standard even on far pricier laptops than that is. 1 TB drives aren't terrible economically nowadays but they're still expensive, figure $250-300. Easiest way to tell if 256 GB is too small is look at the drive on your eight-year-old laptop and how much space you're using. If you haven't filled up 256 GB on it in eight years, 256 GB is more than enough. I have a 128 GB SSD on my laptop. Spending the extra $200 (my laptop is not upgradable as that one is) wouldn't have been an huge issue but it's $200 for something I won't use so why spend the money. I mean, if it's eight years old you've probably got at most 500 GB, no?
Looks like there's a slot to add a second hard drive, so you could just pick up a 500 GB or 1 TB conventional drive for extra storage. They're about a third of the price of an SSD so not too expensive. $50 for a 500, maybe $90 for a 1 TB drive.
Cheaper option may just be to stick some more RAM in what you've got, although as old as it is you might just want to upgrade. Probably what's happening is you're running out of RAM and then it writes to the page file on the hard drive which is slow.
I want to change my system HDD to SSD.
64 Gb SSD is enough space for OS like Win10 64bit + some programs such openoffice, browsers, e-mail for e.t.c. home use?
I want to change my system HDD to SSD.
64 Gb SSD is enough space for OS like Win10 64bit + some programs such openoffice, browsers, e-mail for e.t.c. home use?
I think it'll be tight. Why wouldn't you want a 128GB SSD? It isn't twice as expensive (prob $10 or so more).
I want to change my system HDD to SSD.
64 Gb SSD is enough space for OS like Win10 64bit + some programs such openoffice, browsers, e-mail for e.t.c. home use?
I'd say no. My Win 10 uses 87gb. That's not strictly OS, but even without the extras I installed it would be tight. Too tight. I agree with Jaypee.
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