SSD's in laptop for Lightroom?
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- akiersky0
I got one of these for my 5 year old MPB:
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Mo…
It's a combo SSD and HDD, a 4GB solid chunk and 500GB reg. The drive has a chip that watches what you are reading and writing more frequently and puts those things on the Solid State part. So the more often you use it the faster it will do the things you do frequently.
I noticed a huge difference right away, it boots in about 20 seconds, programs load very fast and seems to help in all the noticeable ways. It provides a great size to speed to price ratio. When I was installing everything, I rebooted lots, between every instal to ensure my boot time stayed fast. Then I would open and close programs I use a lot (chrome, itunes, adium etc...) to get those files on the ssd part too.
Admittedly it isn't going to be always as fast as a pure ssd, but I wanted lots of space and didn't want to have to cary a external drive around. For pure speedyness, and especially if you have a desktop or don't have lots of local files, an ssd is going to be the best bet.
For lightroom, the biggest performance hits happen when viewing new images, where it must look at and cache thumbnails of all the images. This performance would be greatly increased with a ssd. I agree with raf, that lots of ram will make a big difference too. Hard drive and ram are generally the two best upgrades you can do for your computer.
- I had Momentus XT in MB Pro. Surely not as fast as SSD but speed bump was very noticeable and it's cheap.raf
- Be careful not to buy a Seagate with G-Force (ASG at the end of the model number.) -->nb
- I put one in my MBP and it melted my ribbon cable. The G-Force conflicts with OSX's shock protection.nb
- Did not know that, actually always paid a few € more to get ASG version.raf