Install A Solid State Drive In Your Notebook
A Quick Comparison of SSD and HDD Performance
Even though it’s not the major purpose of this article, we can’t resist giving you an idea of the SSD’s performance.
Test configuration
The test configuration consisted of a 15" MacBook Pro (June 2007).
- Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz CPU (4 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz bus)
- 4 GB DDR2-667
- nVidia GeForce 8600M GT 128 MB graphics card
Obviously the storage medium is different – a Fujitsu hard drive (2.5 inches, 160 GB, 5,400 rpm) for the hard-disk version and an Mtron SSD (2.5 inches, 32 GB) in the second case.
Startup
The MacBook Pro with an SSD was significantly faster than the hard-disk version and a little faster than the MacBook Air and its SSD.
Photoshop CS3
Launching Adobe Photoshop CS3 was incomparably faster on the SSD version. The loading time was divided by a factor of three. Opening a 500-MB image (TIFF format) was also significantly faster, though the difference wasn’t as great. Note that the MacBook Pro was a little faster than the MacBook Air, even though the memory and processor play a role.
Microsoft Word 2008
Launching Microsoft Word 2008, which is a very slow application, really got a boost from an SSD. The loading time was divided by three. But even with an SSD, Word 2008 still launches very slowly (especially compared to the Windows version).
File Decompression
For the last test, we tried decompressing an archive (.rar) containing a few large files (around 500 MB) and a large number of small files (less than 1 MB). With this specific test, we wanted to show up one of the weak points of SSDs – writing small files. The SSD in the MacBook Air, which is only average where raw speed is concerned, was a lot slower than the Mtron with the MacBook Pro. Even with this test, deliberately designed to challenge an SSD, the Mtron was faster than the hard disk.
Hell my photo shop still opens faster(within a second of the SSD times). But Quad + Raid will do that.
What machine they use does not matter much. I do agree they may as well of just slapped it into one of there windows notebooks first since its not too hard to do and then they could get some benches for that, but the speed boosts should be about the same on either OS.
Any day they gut hardware for upgrades(Even if its a mac) is fine with me
SATA is ATA.
PATA is also ATA.
Sigh...
My XP is about the same as the SSD(and like a second or 2 on a second open). but i can see vistas Ready boost pushing those hard.
However, I can't wait for SSD technology to get more affordable. I think this type of hard drive will make laptop seem considerably faster and use less power, lower heat, etc...
I have 1gb of ram
Pentium M 1.7 ghz processor on it
And SSD from hell.
unless you need 2 drives.
all you have to do is to connect a USD drive, run a harddrive clone software and dump the disc image to the USD drive...
then just open up 2 screws in your laptop (like those in dell)
and take our your old harddrive and swap in a SSD drive.
Boot up the computer with a DVD boot disk make by the clone disk software, then connect the USb drive and run the disc re-covery to load the image back to the new SSD drive...
done...everything is there just like before...no need to re-install any software or O/S...
of course now that your 160G/200G harddrive is gone... you have to live with a 32G drive that is 10 times more expensive just to save a few minutes of run time over the 3 hrs that your battery can run...and may be your battery can run just a few minutes longer because of the SSD...
worth it? not really.
SSDs are faster at reading data than HDDs. Thus they make booting and starting apps lightning quick. They are slower at writing data, which is why the 2nd drive is needed to avoid a performance hit when writing. Surprisingly, according to the test in this article, write performance with the faster SSD was better than the laptop's HDD!
Note that not all SSDs are equal. There are slow SSDs and fast ones. Keep that in mind if you read one of the articles out there that says "SSDs are supposed to be fast, but I tested X brand SSD and it was slower than my hard drive." If you want performance from an SSD, you have to buy it, preferably from a company that sells both "general" SSDs and performance SSDs. BitMicro, the company that made the SSD(s?, only one is mentioned) for this article is one such company; another is Super Talent.
I use windows 99% of the time. I make a living on windows because people need more help with windows than mac users need with their macs. Macs are far superior from an engineering level, software level, and all around human ergo design.
Besides, nukemaster commented correctly... the same ideas can apply to your windows machine.
It is extraordinarily easy to tell the novices from the experts just by hearing them speak (or write, in your case)...
what does "F...H..." stand for anyway? Nevermind, I already guessed.
geez!
Secondly, you make a living on windows because everybody and their dog uses it. It is extraordinarily easy to spot morons that think they can gauge the sophistication of a brand by how many people are using it.