I consider anything using a mechanical drive as an operating system drive broken. If you don't, your standards are too low!
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There is no reason to be an inherent lag in everything you do in a modern system because of one obsolete, cheap component. Processors and memory bandwidth have come too far to be limited by one obsolete piece of junk that can't keep up. If on a budget buy a six year old core 2 duo computer and an ssd, it will work faster than a new octo core i7 using a hard drive unless you're doing batch video encoding or something.
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There is no reason to be an inherent lag in everything you do in a modern system because of one obsolete, cheap component. Processors and memory bandwidth have come too far to be limited by one obsolete piece of junk that can't keep up. When you look at latency and bandwidth specifications for every pthet part of a modern computer, and then those same specifications for a mechanical hard drive; it is far enough behind to be considered broken!
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For storage I use hard drives because I am not independently wealthy and no need for fast storage on archival medium. But for os drive, at $90 for 250 gb... cmon. Most customers who say nah to an SSD after seeing my laptop with two in raid 0 say yes. You can't fully appreciate just how terrible hard drives are as operating system media in 2015 until you use a good ssd and then go back to the spinning junk.
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If on a budget buy a six year old core 2 duo computer and an ssd, it will work faster than a new octo core i7 using a hard drive unless you're doing batch video encoding or something.
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For storage I use hard drives because I am not independently wealthy and no need for fast storage on archival medium. But for os drive, at $90 for 250 gb... cmon. Most customers who say nah to an SSD after seeing my laptop with two in raid 0 say yes. You can't fully appreciate just how terrible hard drives are as operating system media in 2015 until you use a good ssd and then go back to the spinning junk. Hard drives belong in large archival storage sites, along with tape backups and other slow bs.
In terms of price, a lot of the time we are talking apple products which carry premium cost anyway. If you can afford to pay $300 or $500 or $1000 more for the same specs as a pc counterpart then you can probably spend $90 on an os drive thst won't spin for ten seconds when you open Thunderbird or a large video session. Or ecen come back from a saved session with lots of browser tabs. A lot of people still accept this lag as just part of owning and using a computer, the same way I used to accept snow on the television because of ota analog broadcasts being the only option to watch seinfeld... thank god for progress!!! I can now forget all of that ever existed. ;-)
I consider anything using a mechanical drive as an operating system drive broken. If you don't, your standards are too low!
There is no reason to be an inherent lag in everything you do in a modern system because of one obsolete, cheap component. Processors and memory bandwidth have come too far to be limited by one obsolete piece of junk that can't keep up. If on a budget buy a six year old core 2 duo computer and an ssd, it will work faster than a new octo core i7 using a hard drive unless you're doing batch video encoding or something.
For storage I use hard drives because I am not independently wealthy and no need for fast storage on archival medium. But for os drive, at $90 for 250 gb... cmon. Most customers who say nah to an SSD after seeing my laptop with two in raid 0 say yes. You can't fully appreciate just how terrible hard drives are as operating system media in 2015 until you use a good ssd and then go back to the spinning junk.
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In terms of price, a lot of the time we are talking apple products which carry premium cost anyway. If you can afford to pay $300 or $500 or $1000 more for the same specs as a pc counterpart then you can probably spend $90 on an os drive thst won't spin for ten seconds when you open Thunderbird or a large video session. Or ecen come back from a saved session with lots of browser tabs. A lot of people still accept this lag as just part of owning and using a computer, the same way I used to accept snow on the television because of ota analog broadcasts being the only option to watch seinfeld... thank god for progress!!! I can now forget all of that ever existed. ;-)
I consider anything using a mechanical drive as an operating system drive broken. If you don't, your standards are too low!
There is no reason to be an inherent lag in everything you do in a modern system because of one obsolete, cheap component. Processors and memory bandwidth have come too far to be limited by one obsolete piece of junk that can't keep up. If on a budget buy a six year old core 2 duo computer and an ssd, it will work faster than a new octo core i7 using a hard drive unless you're doing batch video encoding or something.
For storage I use hard drives because I am not independently wealthy and no need for fast storage on archival medium. But for os drive, at $90 for 250 gb... cmon. Most customers who say nah to an SSD after seeing my laptop with two in raid 0 say yes. You can't fully appreciate just how terrible hard drives are as operating system media in 2015 until you use a good ssd and then go back to the spinning junk.
