For sure, when I got this Lenovo, it came with a 5400 RPM cigate drive, non ssd, it took 1 minute to boot, running 8gb of ram, i5 processsor, I installed this new ssd drive, and it boots in 6 seconds.

 

From: win10@win10.groups.io <win10@win10.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 1:47 PM
To: win10@win10.groups.io
Subject: Re: [win10] Buying a pc for use with jaws

 

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 01:19 PM, Kenny Nead wrote:

I would just make sure, and get a solid state, I have both, and the Solid state is so much faster, starting up.

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Or, if you can get a great deal on a machine with good specs but that comes with a large HDD standard, be prepared to upgrade to an SSD promptly as the main OS drive.

I just bought a 1TB Crucial BX500 drive for $82, so they're not expensive, and there are times if you can get "fire sale" prices on certain machines still sporting HDDs but having decent processors and memory that it ends up being cheaper to buy one and then have the upgrade to SSD done afterward.  And if we're talking a desktop PC, that means that original OS drive can still make a great internal backup drive and/or "overflow storage" for stuff you seldom use that you really don't need instantly at hand on the SSD.

The speed boost one gets from an SSD is every bit as significant as what one can get by upgrading RAM when it's inadequate, and boot times decrease dramatically.
 
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