- Joined
- Mar 18, 2015
- Messages
- 2,963 (0.84/day)
- Location
- Long Island
I wish some reviewer would explain the reliance on synthetic tests and operations that no one performs on a regular basis as the basis of SSD performance .
Whether I take the Porsche 911 of the SUV both get me to my job soite meeting at the same time. My only justification for having the 911 is "it's fun". The person at the KB is the equivalent of speed limits and rush hour traffic. The PC spends most of it's time waiting for data entry. Reboot ya machine at the start of your workday and run PerfMon to monitor and log disk activity . At the end if the day, look at the disk activity total time. It will not be a significant part of your day.
https://www.smartertools.com/blog/2016/07/15-configure-perfmon-to-prevent-disk-issues
Who no real world tests
Time a legal secretary typing a legal brief with an SSD versus other storage devices.
Time a data entry clerk entering data over the phone
Time a CAD Operator drafting floor plans for a McMansion
Of course you can set up a test to "prove" any result you want going in. For example:
-You can easily prove that a large footprint game loads faster on a SSD, by starting at the screen and using a stop watch. But who does that ?
-You can easily prove that the storage subsystem has no impact on the gamer by measuring the time from the start game icon is pushed till the user actually begins playing. In the game I play most frequently, it takes the exact same time (55 seconds) whether I load off a HD, SSHD or SSD to get to the point where all windows are on screen and I can move my character. This is because "server handshaking" is the bottleneck with map markers, friends on line, chat windows, toon stats, various storage inventories, action bars needing to d/l data from server. My routine involves:
a) Start game, after 3 seconds of waiting type in password ... after 4 seconds select character ... after about 12 seconds, see gaming landscape ... over the next 36 seconds, various windows will pop on screen and data idownloaded from server will populate those windows. But that's all happening in the background ... meanwhile I am ...
b) Opening up discord
c) Taking headset off wall mount, disconnecting charging cord, saying hello to friends
d) Opening browser to Game Home Page looking at any upcoming changes, event notices, etc
e) Opening up various web sites with maps, material stats and various IG Apps I have written
In short, even if the game was ready to play in 2 seconds, I would still be engaged getting "ready to play" for 2 minutes or so.
So yes, it's faster, but doesn't get me playing any sooner.
I mean I do use SSDs but primarily because I have always used a separate partition for the OS and programs and this provides a nice means of doing so and budget allows so, why not. However, being able to boot in 15.6 seconds (as opposed to 16.5 for an SSHD or 21,2 for a HD is not one of them). Transferring 500 GB of files from one drive to another ? That's a "day of build" exercise and done AFK, opening 100 tabs in Chrome.... can't think of a reason to do that, compressing / uncompressing giant files ... how often is that being done and, if so, it would be something I do in the background. Backing up 2 TB of data ?... who cares I'm sleeping. The cost is such that I don't concern myself with adding one (or several) but the performance aspect is way oversold.
Yes, I include a 2nd SSD (or more) on a video editing / rendering boxes or an enthusiast box with plenty of budget room, but the implication that this will in some way provide a productivity increase, outside of specialized applications which move extreme amounts of data back and forth to the storage subsystem, is not supported.
Yes SSD is faster than a HD ... but we ain't .... so in practice, don't expect the experience to be life changing. At this point in time we are getting to the point where physical size is as important a consideration as anything else.
Whether I take the Porsche 911 of the SUV both get me to my job soite meeting at the same time. My only justification for having the 911 is "it's fun". The person at the KB is the equivalent of speed limits and rush hour traffic. The PC spends most of it's time waiting for data entry. Reboot ya machine at the start of your workday and run PerfMon to monitor and log disk activity . At the end if the day, look at the disk activity total time. It will not be a significant part of your day.
https://www.smartertools.com/blog/2016/07/15-configure-perfmon-to-prevent-disk-issues
Who no real world tests
Time a legal secretary typing a legal brief with an SSD versus other storage devices.
Time a data entry clerk entering data over the phone
Time a CAD Operator drafting floor plans for a McMansion
Of course you can set up a test to "prove" any result you want going in. For example:
-You can easily prove that a large footprint game loads faster on a SSD, by starting at the screen and using a stop watch. But who does that ?
-You can easily prove that the storage subsystem has no impact on the gamer by measuring the time from the start game icon is pushed till the user actually begins playing. In the game I play most frequently, it takes the exact same time (55 seconds) whether I load off a HD, SSHD or SSD to get to the point where all windows are on screen and I can move my character. This is because "server handshaking" is the bottleneck with map markers, friends on line, chat windows, toon stats, various storage inventories, action bars needing to d/l data from server. My routine involves:
a) Start game, after 3 seconds of waiting type in password ... after 4 seconds select character ... after about 12 seconds, see gaming landscape ... over the next 36 seconds, various windows will pop on screen and data idownloaded from server will populate those windows. But that's all happening in the background ... meanwhile I am ...
b) Opening up discord
c) Taking headset off wall mount, disconnecting charging cord, saying hello to friends
d) Opening browser to Game Home Page looking at any upcoming changes, event notices, etc
e) Opening up various web sites with maps, material stats and various IG Apps I have written
In short, even if the game was ready to play in 2 seconds, I would still be engaged getting "ready to play" for 2 minutes or so.
So yes, it's faster, but doesn't get me playing any sooner.
I mean I do use SSDs but primarily because I have always used a separate partition for the OS and programs and this provides a nice means of doing so and budget allows so, why not. However, being able to boot in 15.6 seconds (as opposed to 16.5 for an SSHD or 21,2 for a HD is not one of them). Transferring 500 GB of files from one drive to another ? That's a "day of build" exercise and done AFK, opening 100 tabs in Chrome.... can't think of a reason to do that, compressing / uncompressing giant files ... how often is that being done and, if so, it would be something I do in the background. Backing up 2 TB of data ?... who cares I'm sleeping. The cost is such that I don't concern myself with adding one (or several) but the performance aspect is way oversold.
Yes, I include a 2nd SSD (or more) on a video editing / rendering boxes or an enthusiast box with plenty of budget room, but the implication that this will in some way provide a productivity increase, outside of specialized applications which move extreme amounts of data back and forth to the storage subsystem, is not supported.
Yes SSD is faster than a HD ... but we ain't .... so in practice, don't expect the experience to be life changing. At this point in time we are getting to the point where physical size is as important a consideration as anything else.
