Thursday, December 22, 2011

Well, after some tweaking and testing and uninstalling/installing all the crap, here's the video of the awesome boot up.

Sorry for the shitty quality since I used my phone and no tripod and Youtube compressed it.
But yeah, I'm really impressed by it so far.

One question remains though, is it really that useful?

Well... in my case, yes. However, for daily use.. not particularly. I mean, at least not at this price at capacity yet. (unless you're just using this as a boot disk, but then you'll probably need a desktop for that configuration)

Here's why, I save roughly 2 seconds from each application that I open (daily). So if you add it up for the entire day of computing use you'll probably shave a couple of minutes off your day. Is it worth the couple of minutes? That's up for you to decide.

However! If you're like me, who needs to use heavy applications like photoshop, lightroom, VMware, etc. It's great, it saves you 10seconds or more on each of these applications. Those could add up very quickly, it saves a lot of frustration waiting for the applications to load, and worse, the sluggish performance due to the bottleneck of your hard drive.

In conclusion, if you have spare cash, buy it. If you use content heavy applications, save and buy it. If you simply do your daily stuffs (youtube, emails, songs, games) well, it's probably a luxury and you can't afford it anyway.

p.s. It does help with the loading time of games, but once you're inside, unless you're playing MMORPG or games with really huge maps that needs to be loaded, you won't see much of a difference.

Tell me if your experience if you get an SSD! And as usual,
Farewell my minions!

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

HELL YEAH! 

It arrived 2 days early. (from the estimated time) I was spring cleaning today, and I'll take it as my reward. Okay, people have been asking,

What is a SSD?

LMGTFY

A solid-state drive (SSD), sometimes called a solid-state disk or electronic disk, is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data with the intention of providing access in the same manner of a traditional block i/o hard disk drive. SSDs are distinguished from traditional magnetic disks such as hard disk drives (HDDs) or floppy disk, which are electromechanical devices containing spinning disks and movable read/write heads. In contrast, SSDs use microchips that retain data in non-volatile memory chips and contain no moving parts.Compared to electromechanical HDDs, SSDs are typically less susceptible to physical shock, are silent, have lower access time and latency, but are more expensive per gigabyte (GB). SSDs use the same interface as hard disk drives, thus easily replacing them in most applications.

Okok I put it in layman's terms for you.

It's way faster than traditional hard drives because it isn't mechanical, electricity is faster than a spinning disk yes? 

But of course, it's expen$ive.

To the point where it's $2.20 per GB. Where else a traditional hard drive, is roughly $0.09 per GB. That's how big the difference is. (this SSD cost $265)

Now, what would justify this ridiculous cost?

Well, your hard drive, could probably do a maximum of 130MB/s in burst rate (starting), then slowing down to roughly 60~80MB/s sequential (after the starting) for desktops. Laptops are considerably slower of course. What can this drive achieve?

550MB/s burst rate.
220+ MB/s sequential.

Now, let me do a nice little image unboxing

Orgasmic moment

WHAT'S INSIDE?!

Took the star out

Close up

Well, the rest are just.. screws and paper so it's not interesting. But yeah! I didn't bother taking pictures of the installation because it's just changing hard drives, nothing fanciful. But! When I was done, I did a quick windows benchmark.



For the first time in my life, the score is actually bounded by the RAM. What the heck. The maximum score is 7.9 btw. Also, this is a laptop.

Look at your score, now back at mine, now back at yours, now back at mine. Is your Disk data transfer rate as awesome as mine? No. But can it be as awesome as mine? Yes. Only if you change to an SSD, the hard drive that geeks use.
(parody of Old Spice body wash, youtube it)

The real world benefits are tremendous. Booting up in roughly 20s, opening office documents takes roughly 1 second. Everything is just really snappy. Snap snap snap!

Okay on the serious side, even though this is a great upgrade, and if you're dying to get one, please, check your motherboard. If it's the intel 5 series motherboard, you might wanna think twice because you need to do a considerable amount of tweaks to get it running at full capacity. Also, it will increase your system temperature by a few degrees.

I know that because I have the same problem. I googled all the problems before getting one, and after all the tweaks, all's well and fine. So here's a geek advice.

Do your research before making any huge investment.

And as usual,
Farewell my minions! 

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