Oh my GOD the difference an SSD makes is INCREDIBLE

Yar.

Got jaded after awhile and tried Raid0 with SSDs. It was disappointing.

However, upgrading to an M2 feels just as amazing.

@AlgoRythm how have you lived without an SSD? 😱

@PonySlaystation with patience

Welcome to the church of SSD's
Eveybody is welcome: win or linux.
But watch out! Once you get one you arent going to go back!

@PonySlaystation I still don't have one (:

@AlgoRythm what are some key differences?

@AlgoRythm Can you pass 30k without an SSD??? 🤔

My laptop as an 512GB NVMe ssd and it's amazing. So fast, so smooth.

Best decision you have made enjoy ^_^

I'm assuming you replaced your old HDD on your laptop with a new SSD. Was it easy to replace?

@burswag well they have the same physical size, so it is like remove one, insert the other.

Disk speed and screen resolution are the big one-way doors when it comes to computing.

Going back to less RAM, CPU, GPU... all annoying, but you can adjust to it. But using a 1080p screen when you've used 1440? Going to a single display when you've gotten used to two, three or more? From a 3GB+ read M2 to a SATA SSD, or worse, a slow HDD? Impossible!

@bittersweet disagree. Screen resolution on phones and laptops is a big wankfest. I was more than happy going back to an apparently unthinkable 1280x720 mobile display for the massive battery life improvement. Likewise the difference between two otherwise near identical Dell XPS 13 laptops, one in 3200x1800 and one in 1920x1080. The 3200x1800's battery life was so shit that I hardly ever took it anywhere as a result. The later 1920x1080 model I still rate as one of the most satisfying devices I've ever owned, and I don't feel like I'm missing anything despite using 4K desktop monitors.

@nathanchere

Yeah there certainly is this difficult-to-measure metric called "screen real estate".

Increasing diagonal size and resolution while keeping pixels per inch within 100-120 at a viewing distance of 40cm, that seems to increase screen real estate. For example: Going from a 19" 1080p to a 25" 1440p keeps pixel density roughly in the same range, but increases the amount of legible text/icons you can view at once.

Increasing resolution without increasing display size just increases sharpness, especially when the UI scales with increasing pixel density.

When you decrease viewing distance to 20cm (smartphone), you kind of have to double the PPI. But as Android/iOS are designed to scale for higher density displays, the UI it doesn't increase the feel of "roominess", it's all just about sharpness.

In my opinion, 120 PPI (1440p/25", 4K/36") is a nice enough sharpness for desktops, and with mobile phones everything over 1080p is overkill anyway because your screen is 6" or less.

@rsync I installed an SSD in a TI-86 calculator, now it runs Crysis. 🤷‍♂

Welcome to 2018 !

@rsync haha I didn't really do that. I did however mod two TI86 calculators with radio chips in high school and wrote a simple instant messenger for it, so I could help a friend pass his math tests. I was almost kicked from school when they found out...

YES FAM

I remember the first time I ran my computer after upgrading from a HDD to an SSD. It was amazing. :kreygasm: I can't imagine going back.

Once you go SSD, there's no going back. Ever.

Felt the exact same when I got my first laptop with SSD 😄

2012 called

Had an SSD for a few years now it has become a requirement on any computer I have to use

@kshep92 is it worth using external SSD for some softwares and storing files there for quicker access or its a bad idea?

@shahlin External SSDs need to run through USB which could slow you down further than a HDD in some cases.

@AlgoRythm wow, that sucks. Thought I'd get an external one since it's my first time

@shahlin might not make sense. The transfer rate of USB will be your bottleneck.

@kshep92 Ah! Thought I'd buy a 120 GB SSD and try. Because I really don't want to get rid of the hard disk. Or use it externally since it has a lot of stuff I need.

@shahlin if you don't want to her rid of your HDD you can use it as a slave drive but boot and run all your apps from the smaller SSD. As for the size, I'd say go with 256GB if you want to start small but don't want to have to upgrade in a hurry.

@shahlin oh and there is no trying with SSDs, you either love it or you haven't used one. Just giving you a heads up 😉

@kshep92 What do you mean by using it as a slave? 😅 You mean externally?

Everytime I talk about SSDs, I feel like ordering one right away x)

@shahlin I mean not using it as your boot drive, but just for storage of big stuff like movies and music. You'll just have to install Windows on the SSD and configure your BIOS to use that drive for startup.

@kshep92 will try, thanks mate!