Not just a bandaid. An SSD has access latency in orders of magnitude lower than a HDD, and that makes a massive difference in virtually everything being accessed by the OS and the user. No HDD can match the latency advantage of even a a basic SSD?
Has an SSD become essential in Windows due to poor performing services?
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10/15krpm HDDs are a bit specialist though, and extremely noisy and/or unreliable for regular heavy use due to the tolerances involved at spinning platters that fast. Too many negatives to consider using one when 1TB SSDs are so much cheaper now than they used to be.
Personally I will wait for 4TB SSDs to drop further before finally moving all my data off the current 2x 4TB HDDs onto them and then finally upgrade my OS SSD (Intel 730 series 480GB) to an nvme 1TB. A mechanical drive-free system is the dream without going full on home-SAN.
Personally I will wait for 4TB SSDs to drop further before finally moving all my data off the current 2x 4TB HDDs onto them and then finally upgrade my OS SSD (Intel 730 series 480GB) to an nvme 1TB. A mechanical drive-free system is the dream without going full on home-SAN.
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i remember my friend had raptor drives and im sure they were 10k drives, and for the extra speed. sooooooooo not worth the noise
I cloned my SSD to a spare HDD as a backup. When I tested loading windows from the HDD it took a long time to boot into windows and even longer for windows to be actually responsive and usable. We're talking about 10 mins. Crazy. That drive used to boot into a usable windows 7 in about 2 minutes IIRC. You had to use tweakguides to get your windows install to be that responsive but you could do it. In that respect windows 10 is a joke.
Yeah was the raptors I was thinking about when posting above - very nice performance for the time especially if you tweaked them - but noisy and ultimately not very reliable.
Windows 10 boot times can be a bit erratic at the best of times - it is capable of very fast boot when it is "clean" but the amount of maintenance, update and other tasks they ram in there sometimes it can double or even quadruple boot times on some start ups
Windows 8 in my experience is consistently a lot faster than 7 or 10 (other than 10 on its best day). A tweaked 7 can boot pretty decently fast though.Laptop in my sig - when I had a SSD hooked up to it for testing (sadly it isn't easy to replace the internal OS drive with an SSD without doing the equivalent of surgery on it) boots Windows 7 in a pretty flat 11 seconds to a fully loaded desktop - with the original HDDs + the 8GB SSDCache that is its default configuration ~19 seconds and with just the HDDs and no hybrid a minimum of 44 seconds.
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But the boot time is consistent on an SSD, I've yet to use a system on Win10 that doesn't boot to Windows and be usable in under 25 seconds flat from the point of pressing the power button. Microsoft have developed 10 with SSDs in mind too too remember and there are technologies that kick in when an SSD is being used that take advantage of the hardware.
By all accounts my SSD is ancient and is SATA, but it's still very quick and boots a fully loaded and old Windows install to the desktop in 20 seconds on an equally ancient mobo/cpu.
By all accounts my SSD is ancient and is SATA, but it's still very quick and boots a fully loaded and old Windows install to the desktop in 20 seconds on an equally ancient mobo/cpu.