On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 18:04:05 UTC, fdjfgj wrote:
On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 16:59:56 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On 11/14/2016 08:44 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
have their windows system partition on a smallish SSD.
Well, in all honestly, that IS going to cause problems
regardless. The larger SSDs are fine (enough) for a phone, but
for a PC that's used for anything more than the average joe's
web/email/word combo, SSDs are still far too small.
I still have an "old fashioned" HDD-only in my PC (a laptop):
dirt-cheap: <$100 for 1TB (try to find an SSD that remotely
compares), and the ONLY time I ever have speed issues in
either Win or Lin is when I'm running far too much crap and
start hitting virtual memory swapping (or when some badly
coded program soaks up all the CPU recourses, but SSDs cant
help with that anyway).
In 2005 a 250Gb magnetic HDD costed the same as nowadays 250Gb
SSD.
In 2005 I had no wife nor kids, so I could put whatever I fancied
in my PC, now I have other priorities. At work, I have only a
very small influence on what goes into my workstation. I'm even
one of the super duper priviledged, I have an i3 with 8GiB (took
me one year to be upgraded to that), a 128GB SSD, a 250GB
platter and local admin rights (that I have to renew every year
with a 2 page form with justifications why I need such fancy
stuff).
