yea its done now the installer kept saying 35 minutes the whole time.. i think it got confused its like a 6 gig install its pretty quick so far i wanna see boot time
from my experience comparing netbooks with SSD and traditional drives at work, the read/write speeds in most cases were slightly slower. But the difference between 20ms latency and 2ms is huge.
Granted these are 8GB whatever crap hp and dell throw in their netbooks drives.....no OCZ 30GB
what the hell can you put on a 30gb drive these days? some word docs?
aint my laptop
its gonna be for webbrowsing and yes... word docs
post by porphyria at Dec 21,2009 8:47pm
I'm okay with waiting another 10-15 seconds for windows 7 to finish loading, that is when I actually need to reboot it which seems to only be when I install something that requires restart.
Doesn't seem worth it until the $ comes down on those.
The thing is people are buying laptops with 500GB drives when they only have 4GB or so of data. If people had the choice between quicker load times but a fraction of total storage size for around the same price i'd think it'd be a no brainer if people just realized they they don't always need the biggest and the fastest. If you have 4GB of data then the difference between a 500GB and a 30GB is just $$.
Speaking of....whatever happened to those mixed drives that would be able to load the OS into its built in SSD on bootup. Basically a drive that could hold the entire OS in its cache. I remember being intrigued when they first started talkin about them but havnt heard squat since.
and i would like my computer to automatically start loading my files and programs the nano second my brain begins to start thinking about them so that by the time i actually realize that i want to do something and go to click on it....it's already loaded.
That will probably be a reality around the time we start seeing 9TB memory sticks.