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Re: Old Mac, New Speed

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On 2014-07-10 07:17:20 +0000, Barry OGrady said:

> On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 21:09:07 -0600, Suze <replytome@thenewsgroup.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> In article <010720142322387235%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Holy hard drive, Batman!
>>> 
>>> The 500GB HD on this "17-inch, Early 2008" MB Pro failed two weeks ago.
>>> This machine, one of two 17-inch MBPs that I own, is important to me.
>>> 
>>> I ran it from the SuperDuper external backup drive for a bit while I
>>> decided what to do. I decided to buy a Crucial 960GB SSD from Amazon.
>>> 
>>> I did that this evening, then cloned the SuperDuper backup to the new
>>> SSD. I was expecting a little speed bump on this 6-year-old machine, as
>>> I am accustomed to the speed of my 15" MBP Retina SSD, but this far
>>> exceeds my expectations. Aperture, Lightroom, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro,
>>> and astronomy software with huge databases, all load in a flash and run
>>> much faster than I would have dared hope.
>>> 
>>> Bottom line, at $400-and-something this is a great choice if you're
>>> looking to give new life to an old Mac that is irreplaceable.
>> 
>> Obviously the SSD drive was much faster but also take into consideration
>> the SSD drive was nearly twice as large, giving more free disk space,
>> which also provided some speed benefit, especially with graphics
>> programs. And I would think, the free space should be in larger
>> contiguous chunks since you wrote a fresh disk.e
> 
> Write speed to SSD is very much slower than to a hard drive.
> The slower write speed and the fact that SSDs wear out is why they
> are not used in servers.

You are incorrect about SSD write speed.

> 
> You might want to investigate the experiment
> to recover worn out SSDs using high temperatures.

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Old Mac, New Speed Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-07-01 23:22 -0400
  Re: Old Mac, New Speed Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-02 04:20 +0000
    Re: Old Mac, New Speed Travis Bickle <3S96@taxi.net> - 2014-07-02 08:27 -0400
      Re: Old Mac, New Speed Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-02 13:30 +0000
      Re: Old Mac, New Speed jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2014-07-04 19:07 +1200
        Re: Old Mac, New Speed (OT) Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-07-04 06:28 -0700
        Re: Old Mac, New Speed Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-07-04 14:08 -0700
          Re: Old Mac, New Speed Travis Bickle <3S96@taxi.net> - 2014-07-05 08:09 -0400
      Re: Old Mac, New Speed csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2014-07-04 12:34 -0700
        Re: Old Mac, New Speed (OT) Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-07-04 17:03 -0700
        Re: Old Mac, New Speed Travis Bickle <3S96@taxi.net> - 2014-07-05 08:17 -0400
          Re: Old Mac, New Speed Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-07-05 12:10 -0400
            Re: Old Mac, New Speed Travis Bickle <3S96@taxi.net> - 2014-07-05 18:27 -0400
              Re: Old Mac, New Speed Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-07-06 01:37 -0400
                Re: Old Mac, New Speed Travis Bickle <3S96@taxi.net> - 2014-07-06 07:59 -0400
                Re: Old Mac, New Speed Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-07-06 14:00 +0100
                Re: Old Mac, New Speed Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-06 06:50 -0700
                Re: Old Mac, New Speed Travis Bickle <3S96@taxi.net> - 2014-07-07 10:40 -0400
                Re: Old Mac, New Speed Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-07-07 07:52 -0700
                Re: Old Mac, New Speed John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2014-07-06 11:24 -0400
    Re: Old Mac, New Speed Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-07-02 09:41 -0400
      Re: Old Mac, New Speed Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-02 13:48 +0000
        Re: Old Mac, New Speed Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-07-04 07:21 -0400
  Re: Old Mac, New Speed Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-07-02 09:39 -0400
  Re: Old Mac, New Speed Suze <replytome@thenewsgroup.com> - 2014-07-03 21:09 -0600
    Re: Old Mac, New Speed Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-07-04 06:29 -0700
      Re: Old Mac, New Speed Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-07-04 06:44 -0700
        Re: Old Mac, New Speed Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-07-04 07:07 -0700
        Re: Old Mac, New Speed Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-04 16:04 +0000
          Re: Old Mac, New Speed Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-07-04 21:42 -0700
      Re: Old Mac, New Speed Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-07-04 14:08 +0000
        Re: Old Mac, New Speed Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-07-10 17:21 +1000
          Re: Old Mac, New Speed Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-10 14:27 +0000
    Re: Old Mac, New Speed Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-07-10 17:17 +1000
      Re: Old Mac, New Speed Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-10 14:26 +0000
      Re: Old Mac, New Speed nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-07-10 12:30 -0400
      Re: Old Mac, New Speed Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2014-07-10 10:30 -0700
  Re: Old Mac, New Speed jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2014-07-04 19:10 +1200

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