Don't need more than 4gb of RAM? Apparently you have never tried to edit video coming from a Gopro. ...Def
<---- Informatics village idiot here.Would a SSD work on a Netbook with a Intel Atom processor?Thanks in advance
Quote from: firiki on December 05, 2015, 11:17:53 PM<---- Informatics village idiot here.Would a SSD work on a Netbook with a Intel Atom processor?Thanks in advance Does it have a standard 2.5" hard drive?If yes, I don't see why not. Although in a situation like that, the lack of RAM and processing speed may be a problem, unlike in Def's case. You may not see the same improvements as someone who has enough of both
Quote from: sLaughterMed on December 06, 2015, 04:13:25 AMQuote from: firiki on December 05, 2015, 11:17:53 PM<---- Informatics village idiot here.Would a SSD work on a Netbook with a Intel Atom processor?Thanks in advance Does it have a standard 2.5" hard drive?If yes, I don't see why not. Although in a situation like that, the lack of RAM and processing speed may be a problem, unlike in Def's case. You may not see the same improvements as someone who has enough of bothThere are non standard format (smaller) SSDs available... so it's really a factor of seeing what you can afford that will fit, and what is currently installed. Many smaller machines don't actually have discreet components (like my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro where the ram is actually soldered on, so there's no possibility to upgrade or change it.) Hard drive on the other hand usually is removable, but I'm not sure it will help a whole lot with such low horsepower. you might be better off looking at a more modern machine and spending a little more to have some decent performance and sell/pass on the notebook to someone who would be happy with it as is.Putting an SSD in my (now 6+ year old PC) made a huge difference. At the time I sprang for a 60gb which was about the best bang for the buck. Given the age of my PC it still gives several modern machines a run for the money, hence my hesitation to upgrade or replace it (aside from being able to afford a replacement) I'm currently at a point where there really is nothing else I can do to make this machine faster, and any further upgrades are just throwing money away unless they can be used in a replacement.As mentioned the manufacturers finally caught on and started making hybrid devices which is great for speed and maintaining storage capacity where you have limited space like laptops. Definitely worth looking at.One of the most important things IMHO with SSDs is to make sure both the read and write speeds are fast, some drives are cheaper and have about only half the write speed vs the read, this will still be better than standard, but in heavy use like video editing I suppose it's best to have both maxed as possible (both 500+ MB/s).
Have to add, used the Dell about 2 months before we got the SDD's - the performance gain is significant.Also, for reasons I don't understand, all i7's just seem to be exponentially faster as far as network comms is concerned.
Well, you have all convinced me to try an SSD upgrade and reinstall.The factory drive in it is all of 120 gigs so it won't be hard to beat that. I think I'll look for a 240ish gig drive and see how it works out. I'm sure a clean install and faster drive will keep this machine alive a little longer at least.Now to find a decent drive.... and how to clean install Win 10. ...Def
Quote from: Grant Lamontagne on December 07, 2015, 08:01:36 PMWell, you have all convinced me to try an SSD upgrade and reinstall.The factory drive in it is all of 120 gigs so it won't be hard to beat that. I think I'll look for a 240ish gig drive and see how it works out. I'm sure a clean install and faster drive will keep this machine alive a little longer at least.Now to find a decent drive.... and how to clean install Win 10. ...Defhttp://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9642327&CatId=5300 or similar maybe?
Good to know. I usually lean towards SanDisk when it comes to flash memory. If they say that Samsung is better then I guess I'll give it a shot.Def
The drive itself is the cheap part. The warranty can't/won't cover the loss of data and that's where the real problem is.Def
Quote from: Grant Lamontagne on December 12, 2015, 01:36:40 AMThe drive itself is the cheap part. The warranty can't/won't cover the loss of data and that's where the real problem is.DefWhich is why you buy a backup drive and BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA REGULARLY!
Well in light of some disk failures or rather impending failure warnings I decided to finally move a bunch of my data around, and a few days ago snapped up a Samsung SSD 850 EVO (250gb) on sale.It arrived this morning and I bunged a clean copy of Xubuntu on it, and I've now just about got everything configured back to how I had it for the most part. Did not think this old girl had much speed to be recovered but it sure is a lot snappier than my old setup!