SSD in business clients

ajf said:
Which model HP are they please?
Currently looking at a refresh and sound like an interesting option, to the usual mechanical drive.
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They are hp 6300 sff. They came with 500gb sata drives so yes we will also have 100 sata drives to flog.

With most applications installed including office 2010 we are left with 28gb. Problem is with outlook 2010 + cache mode + large mailboxes. That free space can quickly vanish. One user has a 25gb mailbox. So for these users we are looking at getting the 128gb or not enabling cache mode until they start dealing with their over sized mailboxes. Trying to get lawyers to reduce their mailboxes is not an easy task. They want 10 years worth of emails stored for every user that has ever had a mailbox within that period.

But with a 6gb mailbox and all apps installed still have 20gb free space. Redirected my documents to network drive and locked down desktop. There should be only DMS temp folder locally which is kept at less than 2gb. So in theory if mailboxes are under 10gb then 60gb should be sufficient.
 
groen said:
Don't know why anyone is foolish enough to go with under spec clients when they can go with this sort of spec for only £450 per pc.
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simple, budget.

sure £450 isnt too bad for a single machine, but when youre replacing multiples that soon adds up. for a regular MS Office monkey a SSD simply isnt a "must have".
 
Your mistake is calling office workers ms office monkeys. Sure if its a receptionist but if its a user that is using business applications, opening documents and working within web applications it improves productivity and reducing performance complaints. Its worth the extra money for 10x more performance.
 
when youre opening files off of the LAN it really doesnt make that much difference.

opening programs then maybe, but 90% of office staff will open their programs at the start of the day and close them at home time.

and yes i run SSD at home and wouldnt go without, but then i have lightroom installed which is local hard drive based (at least for the catalogues) and drive intensive
 
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Not a single place I've worked would justify the additional cost of replacing the "free" HDD that comes with the PC with an SSD. It doesn't sound like much, but multiplied by thousands of machines, it adds up, and the enterprise doesn't perceive this to be enterprise ready yet. I'd say in another 2-3 years we'll start seeing SSDs by default in corporate PCs.

And yes, I have SSDs in every single machine I own (too numerous to count without embarrassing myself), so I know full well the benefit (more than once I've been tempted to sneak one into my work machine).
 
groen said:
Your mistake is calling office workers ms office monkeys. Sure if its a receptionist but if its a user that is using business applications, opening documents and working within web applications it improves productivity and reducing performance complaints. Its worth the extra money for 10x more performance.
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This is the reason we did it as well or the partners decided it. Time wasted especially starting up was calculated and the cost of the SSD's weren't anything in comparison.
 
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