Upgrading to the SSD probably did the trick for you. It is amazing how much faster my home and work machines are after upgrading to SSD. Adding RAM didn't help so much.
------------- Max Charleston SC On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > My old Dell W7x64 core 2 duo had become sluggish, probably because of stuff > running in background (like transcoding and backup tasks). I was planning > to buy a newer box but I had some hardware compatibility concerns. As a > stop-gap, I added a second 4G of RAM and swapped the 500G HD for a new 450G > SSD. I'm not sure exactly why but the machine is pretty speedy now so I'm > keeping it until it starts going south. By the way, I keep big files on a > NAS so the 450G SSD is plenty. > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
