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My computer at work has an SSD from circa Jan 2011, 12GB RAM and a 3.2GHz Quad-Core Xeon. My home desktop has a HDD from 2007, 2GB RAM and a Core 2 Duo.
The home desktop does what I want much faster, much smoother, much more responsively. The difference? Software.
Work machine = Win 7 + Visual Studio.
Home machine = Debian + XFCE + Geany.
HDD is not the main problem.
The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale
As an early advocate of solid state hard drives … The State of Solid State Hard Drives (October 2009) Revisiting Solid State Hard Drives (October 2010) … I feel ethically and morally obligated to let you in on a dirty little secret I've discovered in the last two years of full time SSD owne...
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