How much improvement? It is truly like a whole new computer. Lightroom and Photoshop both fly. I still miss my much better i7 workstation laptop, but I was actually shocked at how much improvement a few small upgrades brought. Its only when I start saturating the cores that I notice the lack of the 4 core i7. PS rarely uses more than two cores really except for a few specific operations. I will admit that it now also has 16gb vs the 8gb it had in the past too, so that obviously makes a large difference as well. I know I didn't mention that, but I would imagine even if it were swapping hard it would be vastly faster. The 5400rpm drive that was in it was terribly slow even by the standards of crappy 5400 rpm drives.
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 1:48 PM, anotherdrunkensot <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > How much improvement was there after the thing was running programs that had > to use swap.More memory is always preferable to swap.Cherry picking how fast > a system boots and ignoring operating performance is more than a little > disingenuous. > > > Sent from my Samsung device > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> > Date: 04-07-2017 9:07 AM (GMT-06:00) > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Subject: Re: Hybrid hard drives, anyone? > > 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. > -- > 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.
