Is A SATA 3Gb/s Platform Still Worth Upgrading With An SSD?

[jbheller]

It's a pity that this test didn't test the hard drives that are more commonly used in business and standard quality home grade desktops and laptops.

I refurbished a pile of HP DC7800's in my business by adding ssd's (Intel 520's in the case), 4 gigs of RAM and Windows 7. They were much much faster after the upgrade. I have bought new HP 8200's recently as a CTO build with i5 processors, 120 gig ssd and 8 gigs of ram, and to be honest in most situations there is little apparent difference in the performance compared to the brand new units.

I have been installing Samsung 840 pro SSD's into 3-4 year old laptops, just using Symantec Ghost to directly copy the image across. The speed of of Samsungs compared to the crappy 4200 rpm laptop drives is phenomenal.

I really don't care how fast a Velociraptor drive works on a 6 gig sata port compared to a Samsung 840. No business computer would ever have one of these installed. The real world tests I need is the speed on one of these Samsung SSD's compared to a 5400 rpm desktop drive or 4200 rpm laptop hard drive. This is what I need to be able to show the management of small to medium businesses.

 

[logainofhades]

It's a pity that this test didn't test the hard drives that are more commonly used in business and standard quality home grade desktops and laptops.

I refurbished a pile of HP DC7800's in my business by adding ssd's (Intel 520's in the case), 4 gigs of RAM and Windows 7. They were much much faster after the upgrade. I have bought new HP 8200's recently as a CTO build with i5 processors, 120 gig ssd and 8 gigs of ram, and to be honest in most situations there is little apparent difference in the performance compared to the brand new units.

I have been installing Samsung 840 pro SSD's into 3-4 year old laptops, just using Symantec Ghost to directly copy the image across. The speed of of Samsungs compared to the crappy 4200 rpm laptop drives is phenomenal.

I really don't care how fast a Velociraptor drive works on a 6 gig sata port compared to a Samsung 840. No business computer would ever have one of these installed. The real world tests I need is the speed on one of these Samsung SSD's compared to a 5400 rpm desktop drive or 4200 rpm laptop hard drive. This is what I need to be able to show the management of small to medium businesses.

^This. Not very many people have raptors in their system. Comparisons to more typical HDD setups would be very helpful.

 

[Dax corrin]

I have the 3GB/s Intel SSD on one of my 6GB/s ports. I'd like to "find" (IE not have to pay for) a 6 GB/s SSD with double the capacity to put in my desktop, and then the hand me down drive could go in the missus' laptop, and she would appreciate the speed-up.

Wouldn't we all like stuff for free. 😀

What capacity is your Intel SSD? Have you looked on eBay? It can be a little tricky
to bag a 256GB SSD for a 'bargain' price, but it's reasonably easy to get 128GB units.

Ian.

I do have the 120GB Intel SSD 320 so my next step up would be to the 6GB/s 240-256 GB SSD.
On an aside, my wife has a Dell laptop that I replaced the 80GB drive with a 64 GB SSD, and it made a huge difference, even though it had reduced capacity.

 

[king smp]

i just upgraded my main rig SSD to a 840 evo and i used the Gskill 60gb sata II in my old dell latitude E6400
makes a big difference especially in opening multiple apps at a time