At Mon, 7 Mar 2016 23:07:38 -0500 Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> wrote: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > > > > > > Thanks, all. I have never even heard of SSD. But oddly, my newer computer > is the one that usually has me waiting for the beach ball of death, and I > think that one has flash memory rather than a physical hard drive. Of > course, I keep a whole lot of stuff running. My older computer typically > has no more than three programs at a time, with maybe three or four browser > tabs open in Chrome, one to two small Word docs, and my time clock program. > Back when it was my main computer, it was very slow. Now, it seems so fast. > > Would SSD give me improvement in my laptop? Oh, yes. I put a 128G SSD in my 'newer' laptop and disk I/O is wicked fast. SSDs are coming down in price. The days of 'rotating rust' will soon be over. I am seeing hosting services talking about using SSDs. > > ________________________________________________ > Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, > "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" > *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 > <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>* > > Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, > poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change > > Twitter: @shelhorowitz > > * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified > * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame > > http://goingbeyondsustainability.com > http://transformpreneur.com > mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 > Award-winning, best-selling (8th) book: > Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) > Coming in April: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World > _________________________________________________ > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & > Folktography <tomadams at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I second the adding of an SSD drive. I added one to my 2008 Mac Pro > > desktop and it's added a whole new life to this beautiful, powerful > > workhorse! > > > > *Regards,* > > > > *Tom Adams, Director/Owner* > > *Reelife Documentary Productions <http://www.ReelifeProductions.com> ⢠**Folktography > > by Tom* <http://www.FolktographybyTom.com> > > Producing Media that Educates, Entertains & Enlightens... since 1996 > > *⢠Cool Media Production...Not Boring or Dumb â¢* > > *(413) 575-9707 <%28413%29%20575-9707>* > > * ⢠Williamsburg, MA* > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:39 PM, Chris Hart <chris at chrishart.net> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mar 6, 2016, at 10:31 PM, Tim Boudreau <niftiness at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> You could probably improve performance quite a bit by upgrading the disk > >> to an SSD if you haven't already. Generally the "beach ball of death" > >> shows up because the operating system is shuffling memory out to disk to > >> make room for the demands of one or another program. SSD is vastly faster > >> at that, which winds up making the perceived performance of everything > >> faster. > >> > >> That might buy you enough performance to upgrade the OS, but would help > >> either way. > >> > >> -Tim > >> > >> > >> Yes it would buy enough performance. 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