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I just bought a Kingston 64GB SSD for about $149 at Fry's. I put it in my Sony Vaio as the only drive and did a fresh install of Ubuntu 9. It is really super
by johnwatson11218 17y ago
I just bought a Kingston 64GB SSD for about $149 at Fry's. I put it in my Sony Vaio as the only drive and did a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.
It is really super fast now. Open Office spreadsheet opens in under 2 seconds. It boots in about 15 seconds. The install of the OS was considerably faster etc.
I have only had 1 actual session on the new setup but it seemed to speed everything up the whole time. Loading web pages in google chrome seemed almost unreal.
- windsurfer 17y agoChrome shouldn't be any faster with a faster hard disk, AFAIK. Maybe some weird I/O flushes in the program were slowing it down...
- mikeyur 17y agoMost likely the fresh install had something to do with that. AFAIK the browser lives in memory and only touches the hard disk for saving files/history.
- johnwatson11218 17y agoyea could be. But chrome is so much faster than firefox especially the initial program load.