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spuds:
Time to speed things up.

Ive reached the limit of what I can do with memory,have the fastest and maxed out on limits,but things are pretty slow yet,especially on boot-ups take forever.

So for the 7 year old laptop and about same on desktops they are getting solid state hard drives.I picked up 2 Crucial bleeding edge drives at 109 dollars each for 240 GB.



On the laptop it will triple hard drive space and blast up the speed.Its said should make my old comp faster than a new laptop without a solid state drive.

For the desktop the old hard drive will remain as drive D,drive C will be the SSD for loading operating system and a few programs that are heavy users,like the Kodak pictures and a few others.

Both machines will be using Linux Ubuntu as it has promised coverage for several more years.

The old laptop HDD will become portable storage with a case for mounting it.19 dollars



The  desktop will get a case frame that can mount 2 SSD's in a single 3.5 bay.7 dollars

sliding_billy:
Solid state drives... the Thermapen of hard drives.  :D  Go with the grey one.  I hear they are the fastest.

spuds:

--- Quote from: sliding_billy on June 23, 2014, 02:32:21 PM ---Solid state drives... the Thermapen of hard drives.  :D  Go with the grey one.  I hear they are the fastest.

--- End quote ---
;D ;D ;D ;D

IR2dum:
SSD's ARE fast to boot. I put a 128G in my pc when I built it about a year ago and it boots to first keypunch in about 13 seconds. I do have to be careful in downloading extraneous programs to make sure they go on the 2 extra HDD's because you don't want your SSD very full. I only keep Windows 7 and my Avid editing program on the SSD. Everything else goes on HDD's. I forgot which color mine is, but I'm betting it is pretty.

drholly:
Rebuilding my desktop - this will be a part of it! Do they make them in British Racing Green - the fastest, you know...  ;) ;D

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