In a few years I think most notebooks will have SSDs. Otherwise I think this year I would have asked itemis to buy a new one. When I think about how many time got lost for me just for waiting for I/O before… And finally it prolonged the time that I will use my MacBook, since now again I don’t have the feeling that I need to upgrade to a newer generation. And Eclipse starts up I would say about 4 times faster. iTunes takes less than 2 seconds to start. To give you an imagination: Open Office (yes, I use it from time to time, don’t sent me comments on that!) starts now up in 2 seconds! I did not measure it before, but guess it would be about 10-15 seconds before. Startup of the system and applications is now really fast. It is now as if I would have a completely other system. What the benchmarks already show I can share with my subjective feeling when working with the new hardware. But even in other categories it is clear that the SSD beats the old HD clearly. Really extraordinary is the comparison of writing (10x) and reading (26x) randomly small files, which comes close to the behavior that you have when working with Eclipse and larger projects. The benchmarks clearly show that I/O has boosted performance by factors. The complete results can be downloaded and viewed with Xbench: Before After. Read Performance: 38.5 -> 126.4 MB/s ( x 3.28 ) Benchmark with Xbench What I just can say is: Go get an SSD! The difference is amazing! Facts Technical Details Now I have all working again and getting my first impressions. Just made a backup and some benchmarks before the change. Today our supplier got this disc and I immediately went to them to exchange the disk. ![]() I hoped this will reduce the performance bottleneck and help me work more efficient again. ![]() Now the notebook got so slow that I was really badly annoyed and finally decided to ask our admin whether I could get a SSD for my Mac. These files cannot be read in one flow, and handling lots of small files is much slower than handling larger files. It must be remembered that I’m primarily working on Java software development with Eclipse, where it is natural that you have thousands of small files to load and to write. I tried cleaning up the harddisk and followed several advises, all with just small success. What do you really have from dual core processors and gigabytes of RAM when most of the time you have to wait for I/O? Over the time my notebook got steadily slower and the harddisk was running and running. The weakest link in the hardware chain of a notebook is always the harddisk.
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