On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:25:03 -0700 Bill Barry <[email protected]> dijo:
>A 256GB SSD drive can make an old laptop leap to life. Most slowness >in laptops is not because of a bottleneck for CPU time, but a >bottleneck accessing the disk. The SSD will not fix your DVD problem, >but it will make Scribus run faster. If this computer could only hold more than one drive I would leap at an SSD drive. But I currently have a 320 GB drive, and it is not big enough. I am always trying to figure out how to reconfigure things to make space. For the price of a 320 GB SSD drive I could buy a lot of new computer power. There exists a hybrid 500 GB drive with a small SSD part. I considered it, but 1) it is very expensive and 2) my Thinkpad's SATA 2 controller is locked to 100 MB/s performance by the BIOS (bad, bad decision by Lenovo), so a faster drive would be unlikely to help. But the decision remains on hold until after the Clinic. Crossing my fingers that this computer can be saved. :) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
