Re: why you should upgrade to a solid state drive
Hi.
Well I have a thing on why you shouldn't upgrade.
If you have a desktop like I have on one of the work stations here then yes its good.
However for more than 128gb of space you start paying a lot, prices will drop eventually but rigght now getting a 1 tb solid state costs to much or more than you would want to pay maybe its dropped a lot.
It was round 100 for a 128gb drive when I got it.
Saadly if you have a laptop unless you want to carry round an external with all your stuff its really not a good idea unless all you do is word, and email and store everything in the cloud and pay for that monthly.
I have a 500gb hard drive which stores with my programs a lot of music and such, with the majority on my 500gb external and 2tb backup.
I once for a number of years used a 128gb hdd drive on an old laptop.
I was able to have my system installed, windows xp at the time, office, email app, web apps and screen readers.
I was able to loa
d all of my games and my documents.
And a little of my music.
This prity much filled up my drive to the extent that there was precious content for anything else.
I had gegs of music and could only store about 400mb of music on the drive maybe a bit more but I couldn't store everything.
On my dad's system with a 128mb ssd, I have his office install, windows, his gps apps and a few other apps.
All his data is stored on his external the only thing he has on his primary drive are some documents, his itunes library and a few other things.
With all his data excluded including non esential programs the drive had about 40 gb on it.
Yes you say 40 gb is a lot but you need at least 15-20gb in order for windows to function properly, excluding your caches for updates, system restore, hybernation page and security files and you actually don't have a lot.
If you listen to lots of podcasts, movies and play games or in other words do a lot of e
ntertainment related things at least in a laptop you may not want a 128gb ssd at all.
If you just do email and a few apps then 128gb is fine as long as you have an external drive.
Now if you don't mind carrying round a passport external drive its ok just as long as you have a backup at home somewheere maybe on another drive that is fine.
But the fact you need to carry round another drive to access your data defeats the purpose of having a laptop.
Now don't get me wrong I don't store everytthing on my 500gb drive.
I have mainly all my music, some radio shows etc the bulk is still on my external which I have plugged in however it does mean especially if I do torrent syncs and dropbox colaberation folders that you don't have to worry about havinga small space to work with.
If you are still wanting to use ssds, I'd actually get another hard drive, and for every program including all your user data excluding the account maybe I
'd have all data go to that drive or at least all big files.
I'd sertainly store bit syncs and cloud storage and shared data on an internal and or external hard drive for backup and use.
Yes I agree with the origional poster ssds are better, but right now they may not be for everyone.
Now once you can buy something bigger than 128gb in short buy drives that can be as big as hard drives without paying a lot more than you should then all good to the world.
For the price of my 128gb ssd I could probably buy a 320gb or 500gb hard drive so right now prices and copacities don't equate or equalise that much though I do hope that within my lifetime we can all run many ssds in our units.
They can fail ofcause but they are less likely to do so.
I kbnow that you can drop a flash card from a desk onto carpet or any floor and it will not break just don't drop it on something sharp or crush it or bend it.
Some can be slower
than others.
I'd also say that combining your solid state with a quad core 64 bit system and a good amount of ram 4-8gb for example really speeds stuff up.
I however still use the hard drive more than the solid, its just to store the os
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