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Still using a HDD here. Would like to transition, but holding out for better price/capacity ratios. It's really clear that it's the bottleneck for everyday use
by buzzybee 10y ago
Still using a HDD here. Would like to transition, but holding out for better price/capacity ratios. It's really clear that it's the bottleneck for everyday use at this point; I recently went to 16GB RAM which stopped a lot of Windows swapping behavior, and now the major pain points are bootup, storage-intensive tasks, and bloated web sites.
- simooooo 10y agoUse a ram disk for your browser cache
- agumonkey 10y agoRAM cached profile, dns proxy, makes for really smoother browsing on older machines.
- comboy 10y agoI don't know how exactly it works under Windows, but at least under Linux such optimizations usually don't pay off much since most used pages are already kept in the RAM anyway.
- j3097736 10y agoMy HDD on Linux barely has any disk access and is perfectly usable, meanwhile windows just loves trashing it for minutes, even with page file & unneeded services disabled.
- aphextron 10y agoYou should really get at least a 128gb drive for your OS and frequent applications. They're like $30 on Amazon nowadays. The speed difference is phenomenal - it's the single best upgrade you can make to a desktop PC right now.