An SSD is the single biggest upgrade you can give your computer, and prices have come down dramatically such that everyone can re-think on his decision before buying an HDD and prefer SSD instead.Its affordable..!
No matter you increase the RAM,processor,Gen,etc..with HDD’s running on the machine,performance will have its limitations!
It’s time to upgrade to an SSD if you’re still using a mechanical hard drive in your computer.
SSD’s are so much faster because they don’t have a spinning magnetic platter and moving head. After upgrading, you’ll be surprised at the performance improvements and wondering why the hell I waited so long.Nothing else will give you the speed increase that a new SSD will.
With a mechanical hard drive, the physical heads need to move around to read data from a spinning magnetic disk. With a solid-state drive, the drive can read or write data from any location on the disk with no performance penalty.
It’s not just theoretical benchmarks that improve. Your computer becomes much, much faster to boot. How much of an improvement depends on your operating system, hardware, and what software is loading at boot — but you can make it down to 7-15 seconds, even on an older Windows 7 system. Your desktop will load much more quickly after you log in too. Even if you have a lot of nasty bloatwares your desktop will become usable much more quickly.
Launching a program, opening a file, and saving something to disk will all happen much, much faster. Click a program, and it can load almost instantly. All those little moments of waiting you don’t notice when you use your computer are adding up. Even just browsing the web will be faster — with your browser’s cache files stored on an SSD, they’ll load almost instantly instead of more slowly from a mechanical drive.
Here’s the testing performed with My Laptops with:- Kingston EV 300 120 GB SSD
- Seagate 298 GB HDD
And the result was amazing..!!
More meaning below to understand the test results using CrystalDiskMark:
- 5 – the number of test passes you want to run. If you want a fast seat-of-the-pants guess, do 1, but keep in mind it can be wildly variant between passes if something else happens to be going on in the SAN.
- 4000MB – the test file size. I like using 4000MB to reduce the chances that I’m just hitting cache and getting artificially fast numbers. Smaller test file sizes may look fast but don’t really reflect how a large database will work.
- E: – the drive letter to test. Keep an eye on the free space there – you don’t want to create a test file that can run your server out of drive space.
- Seq – long, sequential operations. For SQL Server, this is somewhat akin to doing backups or doing table scans of perfectly defragmented data, like a data warehouse.
- 512K – random large operations one at a time. This doesn’t really match up to how SQL Server works.
- 4K – random tiny operations one at a time. This is somewhat akin to a lightly loaded OLTP server.
- 4K QD32 – random tiny operations, but many done at a time. This is somewhat akin to an active OLTP server.
