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ssd's botllenecked?

Discussion in 'Troubleshooting: Bugs, Questions and Support' started by kobusstevens, Apr 26, 2015.

  1. kobusstevens

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    i have a bit of an unrelated question but imma ask it anyway
    i have this realy small, light laptop and starting up programms just takes ages.
    now what has been told me is that the hard drive is slow and is causing this, so i need a ssd.
    I want to upgrade my laptop with an ssd for this reason but i dont know if the super slow Intel Celeron M743 processor running at 1.3 ghz and terrible intergrated Intel GMA 4500M HD will bottleneck the ssd
    oh and it has 3gb 1333mhz ram.

    so for people who dont like reading
    WILL MY CPU GPU AND RAM BOTTLENECK MY POTENTIAL SSD
    (if i descide to buy one)
     
  2. destroyer8769

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    AFAIK, opening programs will be faster and i think you should be fine, it may be bottle-necked but it should be faster (im not too sure though)
     
  3. SixSixSevenSeven

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    All an SSD will improve is the time it takes to open a file from storage (and write data back to storage later).

    Whether this will improve your program opening times depends on the program really. Visual Studio 2013 and office 2013 open quite rapidly since I got an SSD, except sticking low power mode on slows them down a little again so the CPU still plays into it.

    An SSD will probably improve things, its just hard to predict by how much. Question to ask yourself is whether its worth the money, to get a decent amount of storage an SSD is quite expensive, that is why my laptop has 128gb SSD + a 1tb HDD (its also unusual in being able to accomodate both), best of both.
     
  4. Whippy

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    SSD is only really worth it if you are always transfering files or you have long boot times or maybe you just hate waiting for things, but living on a small SSD is HELL. 20gb left on the SSD? delete some stuff! oh wait... there is like nothing you can delete on the SSD, I have more pain the reflif with mine, always looking for a new way to get space, always trying my hardest to make sure stuff doesn't install on it, so if you are going to get a SSD, save up and get a big one or you will have more pain then pleasure.
     
  5. Dummiesman

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    SSD is bigtime worth it. Programs start faster, things load faster ,etc. My laptop runs on an SSD and even on a 32 bit system with 4GB RAM and a Pentium Core 2 Duo, programs like Microsoft Word take under a second to start! Windows also starts very fast :)
     
  6. Aboroath

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    I'm totally with you on that! My 120GB is a nightmare right now.....must acquire 512GB SSD.
     
  7. Gouranga

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    Blame stupid windows. And stupid application data storage policy and all that. Clean up drive, free 10 GB and in a couple day we are back to 40 GB OS plus 20 GB garbage around.
    But it is super fast. Actually for some time I only had a 16GB SSD as fast cache for 5400rpm hdd and that was enough for huge speed up.
     
  8. Aboroath

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    Definitely fast. From last keystroke of logon password to desktop is 2.6 seconds for me. I really don't know or want to go through putting
    my OS onto the HDD. I would gladly keep the SSD strictly for games but I think it would just be easier to buy a new 512GB SSD and
    keep it all fast and leave the HDD for bulk storage.
     
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