[AccessD] Dell 5348 SSD upgrade

[Rocky Smolin]

Happening pretty fast - so maybe 5 years.  USB drives, downloaded and
streaming content have replaced CDs as software distribution media so the
CD/DVD drive may be going the same way soon. 

r

-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Lawrence
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 10:14 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dell 5348 SSD upgrade

Five years tops....?

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
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Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 10:11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dell 5348 SSD upgrade

Did the same upgrade 2 years ago.  Same kind of boost in speed.  Like going
to dual monitors - you can never go back.

How long will it be before rotating storage - like VHS tapes - pretty much
disappears?


r
-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
John Colby
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 8:12 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; jwcolby at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dell 5348 SSD upgrade

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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