20 Nov
2017
20 Nov
'17
3:13 p.m.
I think most people would go for an SSD boot drive and then a bigger spinning rust drive for the storage, could be difficult in a laptop though.
SSD can be up to 25 times faster in read\write.
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Alan Bourke
alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, at 02:59 PM,
mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
> Well, I've been talking about it for a couple years now. I think I'm
> going to buy a laptop this week for some Black Friday deal (hopefully)
> to get the best savings.
>
> I bought a Surface Pro 3 from a friend last year but I'm used to a Dell
> Latitude laptop that fits in my docking stations so I'm not taking to
> the Surface Pro 3 I guess for that reason. Plus I need to wipe his
> image (it was a buyout from his company) and hence "if I have to spend
> for that, why not just spend a little more and get a new Dell Latitude."
>
> My question here: I LOVE LOVE LOVE the SSD drives, but of course the
> 7200 rpm drives are cheaper. Would YOU spend the extra $$$ for the SSD
> drive (despite it also being smaller in size than the RPM drive)?
>
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