On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Sandy Harris wrote:
> anotherdrunkensot wrote:
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>> More memory is always preferable to swap.
>
> "Memory is like an orgasm. You can fake it, but it is much better when
> you don't have to."
>
> The quote is
anotherdrunkensot wrote:
> More memory is always preferable to swap.
"Memory is like an orgasm. You can fake it, but it is much better when
you don't have to."
The quote is often attributed to Seymour Cray, but I'm not sure that
is accurate.
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> Date: 04-07-2017 9:07 AM (GMT-06:00)
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> Subject: Re: Hybrid hard drives, anyone?
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> You would have to be really starved for RAM if that made more
> difference than adding an SSD. My o
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From: Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com>
Date: 04-07-2017 9:07 AM (GMT-06:00)
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Subject: Re: Hybrid hard drives, anyone?
You would have to be really starved for RAM if that made more
difference than adding an SSD. My o
You would have to be really starved for RAM if that made more
difference than adding an SSD. My old i5 laptop took at least 5
minutes to boot windows 10 into a desktop on a 5400rpm drive. An SSD
only takes about 10s. A massive difference.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Bill
On 4/6/2017 10:34 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
Paul,
In my opinion, this is not worth it. If you require SSD in your
system, just buy one such drive, as they are relatively inexpensive
these days. If you require proper storage - buy proper HDDs. These
SSD+HDD combinations were meaningful when
If you run macOS systems, Apple did a lot of work in the hardware driver for
the Fusion hybrid drives. The OS watches what files are being used, written to
and read from, and moves files that are being used a lot to the flash media
dynamically where files that are only occasionally read or
Paul in MKE wrote:
>It's time to upgrade the hard drive in my computer and I'm looking at a
>hybrid - a standard hard drive with a small built-in solid state drive.
>Has anyone had any experience with this? Are they really faster/better
>than a old-fashioned spinny
Bruce, the SSD as such is a complex piece of software. I mean the
controller. Now, you add another layer on top of that controller to
handle and manage the combination. I'm not saying it is bad, e.g. your
point of physical limitation such as iMac or really thin laptop
computers, is very valid.
Boris, they make sense in two ways. They are simple replacement for a
hard drive and give you the fast access of an SSD and the large space
of a hard drive, all without having to partition your disk space or
even to think about where the "fast stuff" is versus where the "slow
stuff" is. The speed
Paul,
In my opinion, this is not worth it. If you require SSD in your
system, just buy one such drive, as they are relatively inexpensive
these days. If you require proper storage - buy proper HDDs. These
SSD+HDD combinations were meaningful when SSD's were very expensive,
but not any longer.
Today the only reason I think I'd get a hybrid drive would be lack of
space. If you've got space and the money get the largest SSD you can
put the OS, Applications and primary swap space, and a couple of high
capacity magnetic drives for data storage.
On 4/6/2017 9:50 AM, Paul in MKE wrote:
My IMac has a fusion drive: a 3 terabyte spiny drive mated to a 125 gig SSD. It
works quite well in that current projects are stored on the SSD, so when I
return to work, the file loads immediately. It seems Photoshop uses the SSD as
a scratch disk as well. My machine is fast to begin with,
My iMac shipped to me with a hybrid drive, and in use it seems about
as fast as the previous iMac that I had installed a pure SSD into.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Paul in MKE wrote:
> It's time to upgrade the hard drive in my computer and I'm looking at a
> hybrid - a
On 4/6/2017 7:50 AM, Paul in MKE wrote:
It's time to upgrade the hard drive in my computer and I'm looking at a
hybrid - a standard hard drive with a small built-in solid state drive.
Has anyone had any experience with this? Are they really faster/better
than a old-fashioned spinny drive or is
It's time to upgrade the hard drive in my computer and I'm looking at a
hybrid - a standard hard drive with a small built-in solid state drive.
Has anyone had any experience with this? Are they really faster/better
than a old-fashioned spinny drive or is it just hype?
-p
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