[AccessD] Dell 5348 SSD upgrade

[Bill Benson]

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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