For those of you on the fence about SSD's

This is from my own experiance with my laptop (specs in my sig). Its an older laptop, and it was running slow as all hell. At first i blamed the rather clunky Ubuntu 14.04 OS it came loaded with. I was right to do that, as putting Zoran OS (lightweight ubuntu 16.04 Windows lookalike) helped running a lot. But it still took an eternity to boot and shut down. I had an SSD sitting in my desk that i was always hesitant about putting in, i was planning on selling it because i wasnt sure it would be worth the time to put it in (in truth it took me about 15 minutes). Let me tell you how wrong i was.

Boot up: about 4X as fast as before. You press the power button and wait about 30 seconds, and youre at the log-in screen
Usage: My laptop always had issues with the hard drive over-heating. No matter what i did the poor thing would always be running insanely hot. The SSD never warms up enough for me to notice until ive been using it for over an hour, then it feels slightly warm.
Battery life: I roughly doubled my battery life switching from HDD to SSD. That was really important to me, as this laptop is my work/school computer :)
CPU Usage: Oddly enough the CPU usage on my laptop did go down 1 or 2% after swapping to an SSD.

Though, i spent 25 bucks at goodwill for mine, let me tell you it is 100% worth the cost of a new SSD for the performance boost you get. The upgrade to an SSD made my 9 year old Pentium powered laptop run like a top, and if youre on the fence, or just need a new hard drive, spend the extra money and get a solid state :)
 

ian

Administrator
Staff member
This site as of this year is now hosted on a server with a SSD drive
 

JLuchinski

Well-Known Member
It takes you 30 seconds to get into windows? Once my machine posts I'm at the Win 10 login screen in about 3 seconds.
Yeah that's a long time for an SSD, I'm logged in and going from a cold boot in about 45 seconds. Maybe he has to many start up programs loading?
 

Darren

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Staff member
30 seconds might also have a lot to do with the BIOS cycling up. BIOS times of 10+ seconds aren't uncommon if you're not in UEFI mode and/or have quickboot disabled. I spend more time waiting on my BIOS than Windows on my SSD.
 
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