You would have to be really starved for RAM if that made more difference than adding an SSD. My old i5 laptop took at least 5 minutes to boot windows 10 into a desktop on a 5400rpm drive. An SSD only takes about 10s. A massive difference.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/6/2017 10:34 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: >> >> Paul, >> >> In my opinion, this is not worth it. If you require SSD in your >> system, just buy one such drive, as they are relatively inexpensive >> these days. If you require proper storage - buy proper HDDs. These >> SSD+HDD combinations were meaningful when SSD's were very expensive, >> but not any longer. >> >> E.g. my system has HDDs for storing pics and 256 GB SSD for OS and >> LightRoom caches, scratches, you name it. Works just fine and suits my >> requirements for system responsiveness. > > > There is a lot to be said for this. My own computer has two SSDs and two > HDDs. > The HDDs are storage only, the SSDs are my C drive and Photoshop swap drive. > Also, you will likely get more speed by maxing out memory than fast hard > drives. > At least that's what I've been told. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.