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I do care and I have no doubt that SSDs are faster and better. I too am holding off until their reliability improves. But I just tested starting my iMac with a
by city41 15y ago
I do care and I have no doubt that SSDs are faster and better. I too am holding off until their reliability improves. But I just tested starting my iMac with a 7200 RPM drive in it and it took 31 seconds from the startup chime until I was able to fully use it. So I can also understand people's hesitation.
And besides, if I booted over to Windows 7, it'd take about 4 minutes until this machine was usable, so it's all a matter of perspective.
EDIT: to be fair I just measured Windows 7 and it took 1:30 before the machine was usable.
- ericd 15y agoThe boot time is just a convenient "wow" factor, the real benefit comes from the thousands of little everyday tasks becoming CPU-bound instead of IO-bound. A 7200 RPM drive is absolutely not comparable.
- cubicle67 15y agoI recently replaced the 5400rpm drive in my macbook with a larger capacity 7200rpm drive, and the difference in performance was quite noticeable. Of course no where near the jump from 7200 to SSD, but still a decent jump. Downside is that the new drive is loud enough to hear, whereas the original drive was dead silent
- ericd 15y agoYeah, I did the same before jumping to 100% SSD. Also, heat/power consumption. If you need the storage of a spinner and can't afford a big enough SSD, running a small SSD for the system/apps with a 7200 RPM as a storage drive in the place of the optical drive works pretty well. Look for the cheaper versions of the OptiBay (which is a bit of a ripoff).