SSD - a great performance booster for tired laptops
Tired of waiting minutes for your laptop to boot? I was until now... Having replaced my old hard disk with an SSD-disk, my laptop has become blazing fast!
Below are my computer's performance scores. My new hard disk has a score of 7.7 and is now by far the fastest component in my computer.
The disadvantage is the disk size. I've now got only 160 GB in my laptop while my previous hard disk had 320 GB. However I still have my old hard disk as secondary storage...
SSD disks are of two kinds: MLC or SLC, where SLC have the best performance and durability. I purchased an MLC disk and paid about $500 for 160 GB. An SLC disk of 128 GB would have cost $1700, so they are not as good value for money in my opinion. Here's a photo of my SSD disk. Doesn't it look nice? ;-)
I've made some configuration changes since I changed to SSD. I've turned off the defragmentation, since there is no point of defragmenting SSD disks. It would only decrease their lifetime. I've also placed everything - temp files, paging file and database files on the same partition - since there should no longer be any gain by splitting them on different partitions. If anyone think I am wrong, tell me...
I can absolutely recommend changing to an SSD disk in your laptop, but in a desktop computer I would prefer a combination of SSD and traditional disk.