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twistedsymphony:

I always thought one of the big selling points of SSDs was FASTER boot times because there no time cost for accessing the data?  ???

paigeoliver:


--- Quote from: twistedsymphony on June 21, 2013, 09:20:06 am ---I always thought one of the big selling points of SSDs was FASTER boot times because there no time cost for accessing the data?  ???

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I have an SSD in my 5 year old system and it is about 5 or 6 seconds from the boot menu (where I pick Vista or 7) to the fully loaded desktop.

Vigo:

Well, there is a major difference between a real SSD and these kind of mini SSDs. These guys pretty much are SD cards with a SATA port. A real SSD will rank a read speed probably around 100-500mb/sec. These little guys are 5-10 mb/sec.

And yeah, they don't have to "spin-up", so the initial read speed is always quicker on a SSD.

Maximus:

All SSDs are not the same. Access speeds differ vastly and you have to see if they are optimized for fast random reads (lots of little files) or fast long read (transfer of large files) same goes for SD Cards.  You want fast random reads for OS boot with as many gb/sec as you can afford.

The drive you pictured is 6gb/sec not mb it will be good and fast enough

Vigo:


--- Quote from: Maximus on June 21, 2013, 10:16:03 am ---The drive you pictured is 6gb/sec not mb it will be good and fast enough

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Oops! Massive read fail. :banghead:

Yeah, that thing is gonna cruise.   :cheers:



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