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Originally Posted by Katsunami
The reason it does however, is because I installed all programs to the SSD, so they start really fast. If you don't, and keep only the OS on the SSD, the only thing an SSD will get you is a faster startup.
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That's precisely what I figured. I could never understand why people would move the programs to another drive and still expect to reap the (purported) speed benefits of the "faster" drive.
That being said... Is SSD that much faster? I mean how much faster can it be?
What does it do that's faster? My HDD starts my rig in about 47 secs. The browser that's not Chrome takes 2 secs to start cold. Less than a sec if it was already in RAM. I'm just finding it difficult to believe an SSD doesn't hit the diminishing returns barrier the minute one ponies up the cash for it.
And I'm not knocking you (or anyone else that owns one). Like I said I'm just having difficulty believing that they're more than a way to get you to purchase another hard drive. And then another one since most SSD's don't come with oodles of space.
That being said if I found out that they used less power I'd need to snap up 3, not now--but right now!