Unimpressed by new SSD!

[Makaveli]

Moreover, I don't have the AS Bench available. So, let's give that a rest for a bit.

I don't understand this its a free download?

will take you 5 mins to download install and run it.

 

[Nate_007]

Just want to expressed my experience. For me, I do feel the difference because I'm an IT support and many of the end users here move their files a lot. And we would order SSD for their laptops and they would report significant difference. Also even just opening programs such as adobe, microsoft office etc, it opens like instantly compared to a 7200 rpm drive.

 

[Makaveli]

Just want to expressed my experience. For me, I do feel the difference because I'm an IT support and many of the end users here move their files a lot. And we would order SSD for their laptops and they would report significant difference. Also even just opening programs such as adobe, microsoft office etc, it opens like instantly compared to a 7200 rpm drive.

Agreed.

It generally depends on your work load.

And most people don't know if their bottlenecks are I/O specific or somewhere else.

I've had numerous people say to me I installed an SSD and didn't see much of a difference.

All they do is spam on facebook and play farmville and light browsing none of which is I/O heavy where the SSD excels.

Once I pointed out the difference in work load and shows them they understood better.

 

[GlacierFreeze]

I don't understand this its a free download?

will take you 5 mins to download install and run it.

Me neither but I wasn't going to argue. For all we know he might not even be getting half the performance he's supposed to be getting because of some misconfiguration. But oh well.

 

[bononos]

Loading big apps like Adobe premier would show the difference but the OP does have a point that an ssd isn't an automatic win all of the time. It might breathe life into some old computers where the cpu still isn't too old.

I'm also rethinking ssd's for grandparent/basic pc's due to the type of data corruption that happens to ssd's in a power outage, because a harddisk isn't a hardship when it comes to performance in such a light usage scenario.