Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > Yes, you can swap out the 5400 RPM drive for a 7200 RPM drive. It will make > a slight improvement to performance, but not the exponential improvement > that an SSD would make.
Hard drives are large and slow; SSDs have smaller capacity (even at the high end, so far as I know), but they're much faster. You should use an SSD for primary storage, but having a hard drive around is useful for backup purposes. If you're buying a laptop, be sure that it includes an SSD. Apple's SSDs (e.g., those in the MacBook Pro) are particularly fast. Apparently, they connect straight into the PCI-Express bus instead of using the older (and slower) SATA interfaces designed for hard drives. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
