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25-12-2011, 06:38 AM
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| | | Speeding up an ageing Computer
Just put a 120GB SSD - Solid State Drive - in my machine. Basically that is a 120GB SD or Compact flash card.
Disc access is so fast that photoshop loads in about 5 seconds, and reviewing photos is a doddle. Keeping photos awaiting editing on this drive.
Unbelievable.
Its is the biggest jump in performance on upgrading, even to new machines, that I hae seen in my 23 years of computing.
(Techie son help!)
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25-12-2011, 06:48 AM
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Great, do they do one for humans? 
Merry Christmas David. 
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25-12-2011, 08:24 AM
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| | | Re: Speeding up an ageing Computer
If they do I would need quite a few to speed up these aged bones.
John Quote:
Originally Posted by Wild-Woman  Great, do they do one for humans?
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25-12-2011, 08:37 PM
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| | | Re: Speeding up an ageing Computer
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Originally Posted by Hobjob Just put a 120GB SSD - Solid State Drive - in my machine. Basically that is a 120GB SD or Compact flash card.
Disc access is so fast that photoshop loads in about 5 seconds, and reviewing photos is a doddle. Keeping photos awaiting editing on this drive.
Unbelievable.
Its is the biggest jump in performance on upgrading, even to new machines, that I hae seen in my 23 years of computing.
(Techie son help!)
Happy Christmas friends. | nice - my HD has just died in my main machine so i might go with a SSD to replace it (or i might just say the hell with it and buy another one)
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26-12-2011, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by eeyore nice - my HD has just died in my main machine so i might go with a SSD to replace it (or i might just say the hell with it and buy another one) | Careful Pete; to replace a 1TB conventional spinning hard drive with SSD may well get you into trouble with Sarah - that will be over £1K. Byte for byte they are not cheap - SSDs and wifes.  |
26-12-2011, 02:22 PM
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too true - but i dont need a drive that size, a small 40 or 80GB SSD would be enough because i have all my files on external drives - it just needs to be big enough to hold the operating system , office, photoshop elements, page plus, webplus and , a slideshow maker
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26-12-2011, 05:02 PM
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| | | Re: Speeding up an ageing Computer
Glad you like that ssd drive Hobjob...I shall buy one when the price drops to a far lower level than the rip off prices are now. So when the level drops to the same as normal hdd I shall buy one. I can wait until then seeing as I already got 8 x 1TB hdd.
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27-12-2011, 09:15 AM
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Well you don't even need to tell Sarah then
I'm keeping my current unsorted photos on the SSD too - access is blindingly fast for editing. Quote:
Originally Posted by eeyore too true - but i dont need a drive that size, a small 40 or 80GB SSD would be enough because i have all my files on external drives - it just needs to be big enough to hold the operating system , office, photoshop elements, page plus, webplus and , a slideshow maker | |
27-12-2011, 04:14 PM
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| | | Re: Speeding up an ageing Computer
all you need now is another ssd for a scratch/auxiliary drive and your cooking on gas
there is an alternative drive which is basically a hybrid of the 2 technologies it combines ssd and conventional hdd in one box
a review here Seagate Now Shipping 2nd-Gen Solid State Hybrid Drive
i upgraded my pc last january and decided on ssd for the main boot drive since then i have purchased another ssd ( both 120 gig ) to use as a scratch/auxiliary drive for photoshop and video rendering and it doe make quite a difference
the new hybrid drives look quite interesting i'm gonna have to have a closer look at those |
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| | | Re: Speeding up an ageing Computer
My ageing desktop PC has just died (hardware) and I've had to go to using my higher specced Win7 laptop for regular and general use until I can afford a re-build of the desktop machine.
After labouring with the laptop for a few weeks, I now realise that the best performance upgrade I ever installed on to my desktop machine was Linux
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