Every day in the morning, when you turn on your computer, it takes up to several minutes until you can start working. We all know the annoying sound of the hard drive reading all data at startup. So what about installing a Solid State Drive (SSD) and get rid of this whole process?
Yes - SSDs are much faster at reading data and the daily boot process becomes a pleasure with a SSD. As SSDs doesn't have a spinning plate inside, their totally soundless. A computer without the innervating sound of the running hard drive? Yes - Now it's possible! But SSDs have cons, too. The writing process is much slower than on regular hard drives. This means, that the boot process, which is mostly a reading process will be finished much faster, but when you're doing write extensive tasks your work progress will become much slower. If you're still fine with this, here's what you need to do, when switching to a SSD.
Go to your system device manager and identify the hard drive controller. To benefit from the SSD you need a Serial ATA controller. When you have an older interface like IDE or a parallel one it's not worth to change, because the controller will become your system's bottleneck.
When your computer is a desktop PC, your hard drive size will be 3.5". Notebooks usually have a 2.5" or 1.8" drive build in. Open the computer (of course turn it off before and take out the plug) carefully and unplug the existing hard drive. Install the SSD and connect it. After installation, go to your BIOS and start the hardware identification so that your computer will recognize the new hardware.
SSDs are still much more expensive than regular hard drives, but prices are falling every day. So before switching to a SSD take a minute and think if the pros, like faster booting and lower battery consumption, especially on laptops, are worth to spend money for this type of storage. - 22787
Yes - SSDs are much faster at reading data and the daily boot process becomes a pleasure with a SSD. As SSDs doesn't have a spinning plate inside, their totally soundless. A computer without the innervating sound of the running hard drive? Yes - Now it's possible! But SSDs have cons, too. The writing process is much slower than on regular hard drives. This means, that the boot process, which is mostly a reading process will be finished much faster, but when you're doing write extensive tasks your work progress will become much slower. If you're still fine with this, here's what you need to do, when switching to a SSD.
Go to your system device manager and identify the hard drive controller. To benefit from the SSD you need a Serial ATA controller. When you have an older interface like IDE or a parallel one it's not worth to change, because the controller will become your system's bottleneck.
When your computer is a desktop PC, your hard drive size will be 3.5". Notebooks usually have a 2.5" or 1.8" drive build in. Open the computer (of course turn it off before and take out the plug) carefully and unplug the existing hard drive. Install the SSD and connect it. After installation, go to your BIOS and start the hardware identification so that your computer will recognize the new hardware.
SSDs are still much more expensive than regular hard drives, but prices are falling every day. So before switching to a SSD take a minute and think if the pros, like faster booting and lower battery consumption, especially on laptops, are worth to spend money for this type of storage. - 22787
About the Author:
Dominik Sapinski is senior project manager at soft-evolution, an innovative provider of team management software Pimero.
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