<br style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Dave Doyle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.s.doyle@gmail.com" target="_blank">dave.s.doyle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I don't know what SSD means in this context? Can anyone explain?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Solid State Drive. Flash memory hard drive instead of the spinning disk. :) </div><div><br></div><div>And for the record: SSD is a huge performance increase when you do ANYTHING I/O based. I mean it. My MBP flies. Yes, it has a nicer processor than my old 'puter, but folks who have the same model and the traditional spinning disk HD have commented on the speed of my boot.</div>
</blockquote></div><br>I still don't quite get why there is such performance boost. <br><br>So Stuart, your MacBook Air, and Dave, your MBP, do they only contain SSD, not ordinary spinning disks?<br><br><blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
investing in an SSD is the single most important<br>
thing you can do to improve the overall performance of your machine<br></blockquote></blockquote>For any old Linux box, with several TB of HD, will investing in an SSD really make much different? <br><br>I think the only thing that SSD can help such box is to use the whole SSD as swap. In such case, I don't think such setup will have much
improvement on boot up speed, or application startup time. <br><br>Just thinking out loud here. Anyone can help me out here? <br><br>Thanks<br><br>