Wedebugyou

Are you one of these person who came back home with your new computer very excited?
It has microsoft windows 7 or mac OS X mountain lion, multiple cores and a lot of RAM!

You tell yourself it’s so good it will be fast and finally you can get rid of your old slow computer with windows xp or snow leopard.

When it’s time to boot it, you realize that your new computer is slower than your old one.
You tell yourself it’s windows 7 or Mountain lion. It’s bigger it needs more files to load.

When it’s time to use your favorite apps, they are also slower..
We use eclipse with some projects.

Even the browser is slower to load on new, better and faster hardware!.

Why?.
Because you forgot to buy a solid-state drive or SSD.

What is a SSD?

The SSD replace the old technology known as hard disk drive or HDD. This is where your computer stores the files for the operating system and the applications. It is the slowest piece in your computer.

This new technology makes your computer faster.
The cpu and the RAM can exchange information in nano seconds. The HDD can only exchange at milli seconds which is 1000 time slower than the RAM. The SSD is like RAM operating much faster than the HDD.

See for yourself.
For these tests we used 3 different laptops. None were cleanly formatted and they were loaded with a tons of softwares which reflect today’s reality. Here is the description:

• A laptop Intel Core2 1.66 GHz, 2 GB RAM was use for the windows XP tests.
• A laptop MacBook Pro Intel Core i5 2.4 GHz, 8 GB RAM was use for all the Mac OS X tests.
• A laptop Intel Core i5 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM was use for the Windows 7 tests.

The booting time is now very impressive.
I don’t remember in my life booting a computer other than customize version of linux and BSD under 25 seconds. Notice that Windows XP doesn’t have all the features necessary to use a SSD and Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP.

Your applications are now very responsive.
Eclipse is a huge software for developing Java application. Notice how much faster is Windows 7 with a SSD! It is loading the same huge eclipse project. This shows you that your favorite huge software will also run much faster. We talk about your games, your accounting software, your collaboration tools, MS office, photoshop, illustrator, itunes, autocad, etc.

And the browser loads finally instantly.
Finally! I can’t believe that today a browser can take more than 1 second to load!

What do I do if I want one?
The best approach is to clone your actual drive to the new SSD. This way everything stays the same and you don’t need to reconfigure anything.

Stop waiting and start working
If you spend many hours on your computer for work, for fun or for research, it’s important to have a fast and responsive computer. You can also give a second life to an aging computer.

Consult a computer expert if you need help to install your new SSD.
After that you can also have your SSD sticker.