[dba-Tech] Micron SSD

[Jon Tydda]

I haven't used Micron myself, but yes, upgrading your hard drive to an SSD
is the cheapest way to make your computer faster.

I don't think traditional HDDs are going away yet - you can buy 6TB for £60,
and the equivalent SSD would be in the hundreds.

It's easy enough to do, find an SSD with the same or bigger capacity, and
use another PC to clone your C drive, then "restore" it to the SSD, and
that's about it. You'll notice the difference immediately.


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Arthur
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Sent: 10 June 2018 17:42
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
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Subject: [dba-Tech] Micron SSD

Recently I bought a --um, I think the platform is generically called an
ultrabook. It's small and contains an SSD, my first experience with this
technology. In short, Holy S**t, Batman!  Methinks the days of hard disks
are rapidly waning. I'm gazing at my Old Faithful, an HP Millenium tower
which has only once given me a problem in her entire life, and thinking that
maybe I should give her a digital Red Bull, so to speak. Currently she's
wearing a pair of hard disks, one 250 GB and one 75GB. I haven't inspected
her innards for at least a decade, being satisfied with the Belarc Advisor
reports to tell me what's in there.

Given its age, I don't know whether it has a built-in SSD location, or
whether I need to remove the skinny hard disk and replace it with the SSD..
I'm hesitant to jump to conclusions regarding any of this. I admit that I'm
thinking that this old 'puter would enjoy a transplant, so to speak.

Kindly excuse all the anthropomorphism, but I think of my names for
computers as all relating to Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, etc. (Monty
Python has figured largely in my life; John Cleese doing the Minister of
Silly Walks still makes me fall off the couch with belly-laughs, not to
mention *A Fish Called Wanda. *I digress. My only available apologies are
thoughts of the coming World Cup, combined with thoughts of Jamie Lee Curtis
-- neither of which concerns the original intent of this message, which was,
does anyone have experience with Micron products, and if so, are their
products reliable? Secondarily, is one of their SSDs easily installed by a
person such as myself, with software skills but seriously lacking in
hardware skills?

A.

Being

--
Arthur
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