On 2015-02-06 09:21, Herbert Graf wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 23:17 +1300, RussellMc wrote:
>> >
>> > > - Windows 10 will run on it(!)
>> >
>>=20
>> I (sincerely) hope that W10 will run better on it than W8.1 does on a
>> typical HP netbook with 1 GB of RAM.
>>=20
>> I have 3 netbooks with XP Pro, Win 7, Win 8.1
>>=20
>> Each came with that OS installed.
>> I do not recall what processor each has, but the W8.1 version is the
>> newest, and makes treacle look fast.
>> I keep thinking I should try readyboost (so easy to do or downgrade=20
>> the OS
>> but neither has happened so far.
>=20
> FWIW I have a laptop that I was ready to give up on. Beautiful (cheap)
> machine, nice screen, good touchscreen (Asus X202E with B800 Intel
> Celeron), but the thing CRAWLED (win8.1).
>=20
> Every time I brought it out of standby the harddrive would thrash for
> minutes at a time, bringing the whole machine to a standstill. Fresh
> booting would help a little, but booting took forever.
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> For "fun", I built another win8.1 machine and after a few days noticed
> the same symptom: thrashing of the HD after coming out of standby.
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> Looking online it appears that's just what Win8.1 does, it really kills
> performance.
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> Since the HD in the machine started to show SMART errors, I decided to
> replace it. I replaced it with a 256GB SSD (Crucial MX100 I think).
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> When I powered the machine the first time I almost fell over. The
> difference wasn't night and day. The difference was zombie/vampire
> apocolypse vs. the garden of Eden.
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> The machine feels so much faster it's astonishing. I used to only keep
> one app open at a time, and would regularly close tabs on my browser in
> the hope of keeping performance up.
>=20
> Now I don't even consider that sort of stuff.
>=20
> I'd recommend swapping every spinning rust disk drive you have that's
> used as an OS drive with an SSD, your life depends on it... :)
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> TTYL

Oh, yes. SSD is absolutely the way to go for your main laptop/desktop=20
drive. Spinning disks still have a place in large arrays and/or cheap=20
bulk storage.

I refuse to own a machine that does not have an SSD. The difference in=20
experience, as you say, is amazing.

Do note, that they tend to have more abrupt failure modes than spinning=20
disks. Make sure you have stuff backed up.

-Pete
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