Subj : Re: i5-2430
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Tracker1
Date : Sun Mar 29 2020 01:34:09

On 3/28/2020 4:32 AM, poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
> Most probably, depends on the laptop. What brand/model is it?
> 
> Whether a 2011 laptop would make the most of a modern SSD drive depends on
> the laptop's SATA interface; some old Thinkpads used a SATA to PATA bridge,
> which limited the speed of the SATA interface throughput, but I think
> manufacturers were pretty much done by then and supporting SATA natively.

Even if it's a slower SATA2 interface, an SSD will just maximize that 
interface, likely a multiple faster than a spinning disk, especially one 
from that time period.

> Another option if cost is an issue is a hybrid SATA drive. I bought a lot of
> them for laptops back then, and they made a big difference. It's a SATA
> drive with a big (2-4GB) solid state cache. The drives boot up the same, but
> as they start caching data, the laptop pulls from the cache instead of the
> spinning drive and subsequent accesses are as flash speeds.

Be experience was a bit different, I'd often fill/flush the SSD caching 
layer and it slowed like a rock.. performance was unreliable to say the 
least... these days an actual SSD isn't much more than a spinning laptop 
disk... you can get 1TB for around $100 or so.

Okay, you can get laptop non-ssd's for half that... it's more than worth 
it still imho.

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Michael J. Ryan
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