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Originally Posted by hidden.platypus
That being said... Is SSD that much faster? I mean how much faster can it be?
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Yes, it's that much faster. You know the little logo animation Windows 7 does when it starts up? Well, using a computer from 2008 (upgraded with an SSD in 2011), the screen goes blank and switches to the login screen before that animation is done.
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What does it do that's faster? My HDD starts my rig in about 47 secs.
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The SSD doesn't rotate, so it is not affected by fragmentation of files or seek time (place of a file on the disk). If you load a file or program from an HDD, and the files are fragmented or spread out, the disk has to wait until the platter rotates the file (or file fragment) under the reading head before it can be processed.
The SSD has no such problem: any file can be found and loaded instantaneously, independent of its location or number of fragements.
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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.
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Believe it... an SSD is faster, even in a 6 year old rig over here. At work, I have a computer with a much faster CPU (one of the latest i5's), but it also only has 4GB RAM (my own has 8GB, since 2008 already), and it uses a normal SATA disk.
The difference between these computers is so big that I'd rather use my 6 year old laptop at work, which also has an SSD an 8GB RAM, than the computer with the i5 CPU.
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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!
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First: you don't need a huge SSD. 128GB is fine for OS and applications, and even some of the newer games, if you'd want to.
Second: they do use less power than a normal hard drive.