HDD vs SSD: Is A HDD Slowing Down Your PC!
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Date: 2022-03-15
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Bert
I'm waiting for a new 2 TB HDD and I'm convinced that is will be fast and snappy for my Dec 2011 Sandy Bridge laptop. But I run a real modern Linux OS; Ubuntu 21. 04 on the OpenZFS 2. 0 storage system released last week!
That 2 TB HDD is the level three of a 3-level lz4 compressed storage hierarchy. One level up we have a 120 GB lz4 compressed sata-SSD (L2ARC) and on top we have a 4 GB lz4 compressed memory cache (L1ARC. That L1ARC contains -7 GB of disk records with a measured cache hit rate of 98%, so in practice the system runs from a RAM disk: ) The OS and programs are initially loaded from the L2ARC and that SSD cache contains -220 GB of disk records. Only just updated programs and library files will have to be run the first time from the HDD.
To be completely honest, in these COVID times the laptop is mainly used as backup-server for my desktop. At home I use my desktop with a 512 GB nvme-SSD, 1. 5 TB in 2 HDDs and a 128 GB SSD cache (L2ARC) for those HDDs. I will use my laptop again as a normal PC, when I can visit my family in Europe again for a couple of months during e. g the summer of 2022.
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I'm waiting for a new 2 TB HDD and I'm convinced that is will be fast and snappy for my Dec 2011 Sandy Bridge laptop. But I run a real modern Linux OS; Ubuntu 21. 04 on the OpenZFS 2. 0 storage system released last week!
That 2 TB HDD is the level three of a 3-level lz4 compressed storage hierarchy. One level up we have a 120 GB lz4 compressed sata-SSD (L2ARC) and on top we have a 4 GB lz4 compressed memory cache (L1ARC. That L1ARC contains -7 GB of disk records with a measured cache hit rate of 98%, so in practice the system runs from a RAM disk: ) The OS and programs are initially loaded from the L2ARC and that SSD cache contains -220 GB of disk records. Only just updated programs and library files will have to be run the first time from the HDD.
To be completely honest, in these COVID times the laptop is mainly used as backup-server for my desktop. At home I use my desktop with a 512 GB nvme-SSD, 1. 5 TB in 2 HDDs and a 128 GB SSD cache (L2ARC) for those HDDs. I will use my laptop again as a normal PC, when I can visit my family in Europe again for a couple of months during e. g the summer of 2022.
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Kevin
I Have An Old Dell From Around 2007 With A Q6600 CPU That I Put A Kingston A300 SSD In! It Boots As Fast As As My New Laptop! There Is A Difference Between SSD's As Well! The Newer Less expensive SSD's Are Not As Fast As The Older More Expensive Ones! This Machine Has Encoded TV Shows I Record Of The Air For At Least 10 Years! I am Talking About 10's Of Thousands Of WTV Files To MKV and Cut Out The Adds! I Use Media Center Buddy to Compress Files That Start Out As 5 to 6 GB Compressed Down To 350 MB's! I Had To Replace The Power Supply A Few Years Back But I Can Not Complain About This Dell Inspiron! I Moved Away From Windows And Installed Linux Kodachi A Security Based Xubuntu Distro That Comes With Support For Several VPN's Built Right In! GO Check It Out! It Can Be Run Right From The Flash Drive Without Having To Install Anything!
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I Have An Old Dell From Around 2007 With A Q6600 CPU That I Put A Kingston A300 SSD In! It Boots As Fast As As My New Laptop! There Is A Difference Between SSD's As Well! The Newer Less expensive SSD's Are Not As Fast As The Older More Expensive Ones! This Machine Has Encoded TV Shows I Record Of The Air For At Least 10 Years! I am Talking About 10's Of Thousands Of WTV Files To MKV and Cut Out The Adds! I Use Media Center Buddy to Compress Files That Start Out As 5 to 6 GB Compressed Down To 350 MB's! I Had To Replace The Power Supply A Few Years Back But I Can Not Complain About This Dell Inspiron! I Moved Away From Windows And Installed Linux Kodachi A Security Based Xubuntu Distro That Comes With Support For Several VPN's Built Right In! GO Check It Out! It Can Be Run Right From The Flash Drive Without Having To Install Anything!
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Matheus
In Brazil, with pcs and laptops skyrocketing, I always recommend to my clients upgrande hd to ssd. People think a machine could not resist after 8 or 9 years of use, but it always depends of what the user want to do on PC. I Still use a Dell Inspiron 1428 as a travel machine, because it works fine with 4gb Ram, 120gb SSD and Linux Mint.
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In Brazil, with pcs and laptops skyrocketing, I always recommend to my clients upgrande hd to ssd. People think a machine could not resist after 8 or 9 years of use, but it always depends of what the user want to do on PC. I Still use a Dell Inspiron 1428 as a travel machine, because it works fine with 4gb Ram, 120gb SSD and Linux Mint.
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Daniel
There are still downsides. Endurance is one of them and cost per GB. If you are looking to store large amounts of data to do a huge amount of writes then an ssd isn't the best choice. For the average user an ssd is a worthwhile and effective upgrade.
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There are still downsides. Endurance is one of them and cost per GB. If you are looking to store large amounts of data to do a huge amount of writes then an ssd isn't the best choice. For the average user an ssd is a worthwhile and effective upgrade.
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Scott
So, for your OS, especially if with a page file system, YES! use a SSD, even if it's just a cheap SATA SSD.
For games and storage repository, definitely just stick with a HDD, and maybe buy two, and put them in RAID 1 for redundancy.
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So, for your OS, especially if with a page file system, YES! use a SSD, even if it's just a cheap SATA SSD.
For games and storage repository, definitely just stick with a HDD, and maybe buy two, and put them in RAID 1 for redundancy.
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John
Nice video. Some ssds can perform even slower then a hdd - those are cacheless ssds. Be sure to check all of the specifications of an ssd you are considering on buying - make sure it has a cache, if it doesn't run away as fast as you can.
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Nice video. Some ssds can perform even slower then a hdd - those are cacheless ssds. Be sure to check all of the specifications of an ssd you are considering on buying - make sure it has a cache, if it doesn't run away as fast as you can.
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Scudmaster11
I'm not upgrading to a ssd. an ssd has awful write speed it's so slow. also when you brought up the loading speed on a old PC. it's not the drive. it's the CPU. with the comparison is just wrong
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I'm not upgrading to a ssd. an ssd has awful write speed it's so slow. also when you brought up the loading speed on a old PC. it's not the drive. it's the CPU. with the comparison is just wrong
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Forget
. Its also how apple made soo much money from mac.
ssd, ips screen in a small package.
windows didnt have a laptops like that til apple. dat and that iphone2g started it all. sadly
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. Its also how apple made soo much money from mac.
ssd, ips screen in a small package.
windows didnt have a laptops like that til apple. dat and that iphone2g started it all. sadly
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Marc
Oh also additional info, not all SSDs are created equal. Some real cheap ssds can be even slower than a harddisk. Do your research before buying. Dont just buy the cheapest one out there.
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Oh also additional info, not all SSDs are created equal. Some real cheap ssds can be even slower than a harddisk. Do your research before buying. Dont just buy the cheapest one out there.
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Boris
I just ordered 6TB of NVME and 72TB of hard drives but somehow Youtube thought it would be a good suggestion for me.
Give me that hard drive so I can fit some plots in.
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I just ordered 6TB of NVME and 72TB of hard drives but somehow Youtube thought it would be a good suggestion for me.
Give me that hard drive so I can fit some plots in.
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