and by the time you've bought it and put it together. It's already out of date.
it's shocking the difference an SSD makes, could be a good idea to install one straight away and a fresh install of windows to it before you spend time installing all your programs on the new one and getting it the way you want it?
Bob, take the sash out.... and lift it over..
read this ignore writing just read within the boxed area
http://www.storagereview.com/ssd_vs_hdd
they are faster but not by much
Your new machine will have a spare connector to plug in the HDD.plug in a power connector and let windows find it as an additional hard drive. Much better transfer speeds if you've got a lot to copy.
read this ignore writing just read within the boxed area
http://www.storagereview.com/ssd_vs_hdd
they are faster but not by much
i would never use a used hard drive for back up data only a new one its used and you could have loads of errors on that drive or it could be on its way out
just remember if its plugged in all the time it is being used all the time
ive had new drives fail on me but i test them by loading them up for a week then i clear it then fully load it up
I only had a quick look though that, but I think it's outright wrong
SSDs are miles faster than mechanical hard drives, in benchmarks and in real world use / feel
quick google and most reviews says an SSD reads/writes about 5 times faster than ahard drive
but the real advantage is the seek time / random read/writes - when a mechanical hard drive you have to wait for the read head to move around the disk, with an ssd there's non of that, it's instant
in real world my PC boots up and into windows before the screens have come on
everyone I talk to about upgrading to an SSD is shocking - it's one of the few upgrades you can make now where you really feel/notice the difference
unless you're upgrading from really old stuff you'll hardly notice a cpu upgrade, or more/faster ram... but you really notice swapping from a mechanical hard disk to an ssd
It's so much easier with Linux, you just copy all the files across, then set the boot flag on the new disc and tell the machine to boot of the new disc. Job done. Imaging an entire disc on Linux is also simple, I imaged both my laptop and the wife's harddisc across the network onto my serverIf you do a new install of Windows, just copying the apps and files over to the new disk will not work, you have to reinstall the programs.
Must have another poke around Linux, been ten years or so since i last used it.If you want to really see some speed with a SSD fitted you should try upgrading to a Linux Distro like Debian, my laptop takes longer doing it's startup self test than the OS takes to load and shutting down takes just over a second or so.
It's so much easier with Linux, you just copy all the files across, then set the boot flag on the new disc and tell the machine to boot of the new disc. Job done. Imaging an entire disc on Linux is also simple, I imaged both my laptop and the wife's harddisc across the network onto my server.
Been way more than 10 years since I had Windows on any of my machinesMust have another poke around Linux, been ten years or so since i last used it.
Have a look if the CAD/CAM software you like will run under Wine on Linux, there is some native CAD/CAM software for Linux but I've never tried any of it, I have heard good thinks said about LinuxCNC, and PCB design stuff like Kicad is well thought of.I have been tempted a few times to try Linux but lack of CAD/CAM is the reason I have not done so.