[AccessD] Dell 5348 SSD upgrade

[John Colby]

SSDs are much cheaper these days.  This specific drive was $140. Not bad 
for 512 gb of SSD goodness.  And it is a pretty darned fast SSD on top 
of that.  Maybe faster than my little Core3 could really make use of.

The thought did enter my mind, is it worth spending $25-$40 more for the 
absolute best (Samsung)?  The answer is probably not.  The incremental 
gain is likely not even detectable, at least with my processor and what 
I use the machine for.

I am jazzed by the actual difference in performance.

On 8/13/2016 10:59 PM, Bill Benson wrote:
> I discovered this about 2 years back. SSDs are expensive and I have heard
> that they can develop defects from excessive read - writes but I have not
> experienced any trouble in 3 years ownership. Other than accidentally
> keeping Google drive installed and running when I uploaded a bunch of stuff
> from other PCs and it maxed out my drive to the last bit of space and I
> couldn't work with it any more. Had to decide at that point how to save my
> drive, deleted stuff before uninstalling Drive, and wiped out my cloud
> storage. I think I got some stuff back, can't recall.
>
> I really should learn to read documentation. No wait, this is Google I'm
> kidding myself, they document nothing in any useful way, they just release
> stuff and expect you to figure it out.
>
> On Aug 13, 2016 10:48 PM, "John Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just upgraded my Dell 5348 "All-in-one" from a 5400 RPM 1 tb drive to a
>> SanDisk X400 2.5" 512GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive.
>>
>> I timed the time from power on to login screen.
>>
>> With the 5400 rpm disk it took TWO DAMNED MINUTES (!!!!!) to get to the
>> login screen.
>>
>> With the SSD it took 15 seconds.
>>
>> With the hard disk it took 45 more seconds to get from login screen to the
>> desktop with all the desktop icons loaded.
>>
>> With the SSD it took an additional 3 seconds.
>>
>> 2:45 from turn on to desktop ready (plus time to type in the password) for
>> the hard disk
>>
>> 0:18 total from turn on to desktop ready (plus time to type in the
>> password) for the SSD.
>>
>> And this is a puny little 2 core Core3 (4 logical) at 3:3 ghz. Suddenly it
>> is a snappy little machine.
>>
>> What a difference an SSD makes.  :)
>>
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