stevsmith Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Hi guy's. I've been toying with the idea of buying an SSD for my laptop for several months now. I currently run SW 2012 and Draftsight. How much of a significant difference would the SSD make? If any? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackBox Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 I cannot speak to the software titles you mention, but as a Civil 3D user I can tell you that the new laptop I just spec-ed out is measurably faster. For comparison, I currently run a 17" Dell Precision M6600 laptop (last year's model), Win7, 256GB 7200 RPM HDD, Quad-Core i7 2.3 Ghz, 16GB RAM, 2GB NVIDIA Quadro 3000M... The new laptop is relatively the same, only this year's model (M6700), and we upgraded it to include 256GB SSD, and doubled the RAM to 32GB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Boot times will be much shorter in duration and programs will load faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevsmith Posted January 17, 2013 Author Share Posted January 17, 2013 So the programs will only load faster and performance will not be increased, am I right in saying this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackBox Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 So the programs will only load faster and performance will not be increased, am I right in saying this? The disk (or in this case SSD), is only used for reading, and writing data... Any task performed where that is done will be faster (generally speaking, and especially so for large volumes of data)... The 'work' usually done via applications is a processing task (again, generally speaking), which is an entanglement of the Processor capability. Methinks a really fast processor + HDD will outperform a really slow processor + SSD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevsmith Posted January 17, 2013 Author Share Posted January 17, 2013 Well in that case if it's only going to drastically reduce saving and boot times, I don't think I'll be investing just yet. Cheers guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ski_Me Posted January 18, 2013 Share Posted January 18, 2013 I don't know how often you've had HDD crashes but since I bought my SSD I've never had a crash where I lost data. Or never had a crash period. Something to consider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCAD Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 We're running SW 2013, Draftsite and AutoCAD 2014. We switched to SSD's about a year ago and we've noticed a huge improvement with the boot process the shut down process and everything in between. The programs respond faster (with the exception of AutoCAD), the save times are much shorter, the rebuild times are faster, large PDF files are easier to navigate, etc. It is a small investment with a huge return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Don't neglect the value of using a hybrid drive if money is a concern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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