Posted on 01/26/2019 8:07:27 AM PST by ShadowAce
That is, until next year when prices fall even further. And the year after that, and the year after that...
About six years ago, I changed my second MacBook Pro to SSD and loved it. That machine had networking problems and I replaced it about four years ago with a mid-2014 MacBook Pro with a 500 MB SSD. Love it. Dead silent and fast as blazes.
I only have spinning drives in my backup servers and audio/video servers. Everything quietly gets backed up via Time Machine and Synology.
Unless it’s windows 10. They it don’t matter what drive or all the ram in the world...it will run like crap.
Just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I went from a great responding, almost instant response experience to click and wait. There is a good 5 second delay on just about every mouse click or hover.
Welcome to the future of Windows computing!
I know why. It’s because I just bought one right before prices start to fall. I’m also the guy who walks into the room when our football team is crushing the opponents 35-0 and things immediately start to go South.
Until one day you won’t even be able to GET a spinning hard drive any more.
On my home linux machine I run a relatively cheap and small SSD as / for the OS. The /home mount where all my files are is on a large conventional spinning HDD. Makes for really fast boots and updates at a very reasonable price. When the SSD starts to go bad I just replace it and reinstall linux without disturbing my data. That just happened recently after about 3 or 4 years of use. I’m still going to use spinning drives for my primary storage. But SSDs are working their way in. My next project is going to be a RAID 5 array for our home network.
My 2012 MacBook Pro was getting slow and I was considering getting a new one. Then I looked into SSD drives, put a Samsung 1TB drive and it was like getting a new computer. Spent $200 instead of $2000 and I avoided having to deal with new cables etc.
What is an SSD and how have I lived without one for so long?
That’s a fact. It is just incredible how they have been able to eat up every new resource as it became available for all these years. Almost like they filled it up with unneeded crap on purpose.
Mouse clicks used to be local. Now they have to route through Microsoft and the NSA before execution.
I’m going to guess maybe an over production and the trade war might be influencing these prices?
Solid State Drive. Faster response time than a traditional hard drive, but more limited lifespan which means you'll have to upgrade hardware more frequently.
I think you could be very close with this concept.
Maybe it’s just me and I don’t buy a lot of SSD, but the last couple I have bought have been for more memory than in the charts at 1TB and 2TB. In each case I paid about what the current price the chart is showing for 500GB.
Are most people just not that much of a bargain hunter? Or did I just get lucky?
Seriously thought every time I have looked at 1TB SSD in the last 2 years they have been about $80-120 which is what the charts above are reflecting for 500GB drives.
Maybe a speed thing? Though with SSD I wouldn’t expect that much of a difference that the average person would recognize.
You may as well put your home drive on the SSD and tar it up every night onto a spinning drive. As a matter of fact, tar the whole system.
tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz —exclude=/backup.tar.gz —one-file-system /
So much for Peak SSD.
They must have discovered some very large Reserves.
That’s odd. I have Win10 (that upgraded from Win7) on a SSD from a few years ago. It takes about 10s to boot, and every operation is blindingly fast.
Now I will say that compared to XP, Win10 is a fat dog - but it’s also doing a lot more than XP did (which I don’t like).
If you’re having issues, you might need to do some reading on optimizing in a SSD environment. It’s not as obvious as it was previously.
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