Every one of us knows it: You turn on the computer and have to wait until the boot process has finished. Depending on your computer hardware and installed operating system this can take a while. Now this annoying task can be eliminated by using a Solid State Drive (SSD).
Yes - SSDs are much faster at reading data and the daily boot process becomes a pleasure with a SSD. As SSDs doesn't have a spinning plate inside, their totally soundless. A computer without the innervating sound of the running hard drive? Yes - Now it's possible! But SSDs have cons, too. The writing process is much slower than on regular hard drives. This means, that the boot process, which is mostly a reading process will be finished much faster, but when you're doing write extensive tasks your work progress will become much slower. If you're still fine with this, here's what you need to do, when switching to a SSD.
First take a look on your hard drive interface. Older computers use IDE or parallel interfaces. When your computer has this type of interface a change is not worth to switch, as this will still be your system's bottleneck. When you have a Serial ATA interface you're fine.
Which size do you need? This is easy. Plug off your computer and open it carefully. When you own a desktop computer you should have a 3.5" hard drive. Laptops have a 2.5" or 1.8" drive build in. Remove the existing drive and connect your new SSD. Then open your BIOS settings (take a look on your computer manual on how to access your BIOS) and start the hardware identification, so that the system will recognize the new hardware.
Regular hard drives are still much cheaper than SSDs. You get bigger ones for less money. So sit down and think a minute if the benefits of fast reading and lower battery usage overcome the cons of a high initial price and lower write rates. - 31403
Yes - SSDs are much faster at reading data and the daily boot process becomes a pleasure with a SSD. As SSDs doesn't have a spinning plate inside, their totally soundless. A computer without the innervating sound of the running hard drive? Yes - Now it's possible! But SSDs have cons, too. The writing process is much slower than on regular hard drives. This means, that the boot process, which is mostly a reading process will be finished much faster, but when you're doing write extensive tasks your work progress will become much slower. If you're still fine with this, here's what you need to do, when switching to a SSD.
First take a look on your hard drive interface. Older computers use IDE or parallel interfaces. When your computer has this type of interface a change is not worth to switch, as this will still be your system's bottleneck. When you have a Serial ATA interface you're fine.
Which size do you need? This is easy. Plug off your computer and open it carefully. When you own a desktop computer you should have a 3.5" hard drive. Laptops have a 2.5" or 1.8" drive build in. Remove the existing drive and connect your new SSD. Then open your BIOS settings (take a look on your computer manual on how to access your BIOS) and start the hardware identification, so that the system will recognize the new hardware.
Regular hard drives are still much cheaper than SSDs. You get bigger ones for less money. So sit down and think a minute if the benefits of fast reading and lower battery usage overcome the cons of a high initial price and lower write rates. - 31403
About the Author:
Dominik Sapinski is lead tech developer at soft-evolution, an innovative provider of PIM software Pimero.
