Originally Posted by
MG23
Few people care about disk throughput, they care about disk latency, which is why an SSD boots Windows 10x faster than a hard drive, as the disk head seeks all over the disk as it struggles to load all the crapware the manufacturer installed.
Even our old Linux netbook booted 3x faster when I put an SSD in there. First thing I did when I bought my new laptop was pull out the hard drive and put in the SSD from the old one.
Same here, MG23. Not too long ago I bought an MSI CX61 2PC laptop. It came with a 750GB hard drive spinning at the obligatory 5400rpm. This was quickly ripped out of the laptop and replaced with a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD. (And the RAM was upgraded from 8GB to 16GB) The difference is unreal. Just one example: with the HDD boot times, running Win 8.1, were on the order of 1 min + to, now, 7 secs. with the SDD.