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.
Which size do you need? This is easy. Plug off your computer and open it carefully. When you own a desktop computer you should have a 3.5" hard drive. Laptops have a 2.5" or 1.8" drive build in. Remove the existing drive and connect your new SSD. Then open your BIOS settings (take a look on your computer manual on how to access your BIOS) and start the hardware identification, so that the system will recognize the new hardware.
Although the price for SSDs has decreased a lot regular hard drives are still much cheaper and you get bigger sizes. Additional to the faster reading, SSDs have a lower battery consumption, which can keep a notebook a few hours on, compared with a regular drive. Take a few minutes to think if it's worth to switch or if it's better to wait a bit longer.
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.
Which size do you need? This is easy. Plug off your computer and open it carefully. When you own a desktop computer you should have a 3.5" hard drive. Laptops have a 2.5" or 1.8" drive build in. Remove the existing drive and connect your new SSD. Then open your BIOS settings (take a look on your computer manual on how to access your BIOS) and start the hardware identification, so that the system will recognize the new hardware.
Although the price for SSDs has decreased a lot regular hard drives are still much cheaper and you get bigger sizes. Additional to the faster reading, SSDs have a lower battery consumption, which can keep a notebook a few hours on, compared with a regular drive. Take a few minutes to think if it's worth to switch or if it's better to wait a bit longer.
About the Author:
Dominik Sapinski is lead tech developer at soft-evolution, an innovative provider of PIM software Pimero.
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