[AccessD] Dell 5348 SSD upgrade

[James Button]

Have a look at the latest microSD's  256GB? And 10 times faster than 4 years
ago.

But then consider that rotating hard drive  process are pretty much the same per
GB as cheap DVD's

And -  their manufacturing costs, shipping costs, as well as the annual power
usage costs.
 
Add to that, that modern SSD's tend to last longer now, and when they fail, they
often do so  with some warning.

Me, I've been looking for a SSD card sized carrier that will run 4, or more
microSD chips as separate storage 
I did see some that used 4 microSD's as a raid 5? assembly.
But I want to be able to move the MicroSD's to another carrier and access the
data there after 1 chip? Fails on the original assembly.

So, 5 years seems about right - 
25% less cost for 25% more capacity a year on rotating. 
25% less cost for 50 to 100% more capacity a year on MicroSD and probably SSD's.

Phone users will probably be taking the brunt of the cost in that development.

JimB




-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Lawrence
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 6:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dell 5348 SSD upgrade

Five years tops....?

Jim

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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
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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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