My hard drive broke.
"It's time for SSD" I thought. And so I bought myself a nice, not-so-expensive, 90 gig OCZ Agility 3 drive. It supports SATA3 and speeds up to 525 MB/s read.
Unfortunately, my notebook PC is equipped with a SATA2 controller only. And the result I got was around 270 MB/s read speed and access time of around 200 ns.
And what is more important - my openSUSE 12.1 x64 loads for 10-13 seconds. That is from selecting the OS from GRUB to the login screen. FIrefox, Chromium, OpenOffice, MonoDevelop load in an instant.
There are downsides, though. One of them is, off course, the capacity. 90 GB in 2012.. The other one is the overheating - after the upgrade I've mentioned that the cooler is speeding up more often than usual, trying to keep up with the growing temperature. Sometimes, even leaving the notebook powered on, without any heavy task running, heats up the base of the device a lot.
But never the less, I'm happy with my new SSD, and I plan on building a desktop with one. Also I hope I will never go back to HDDs - as one of my proffesors said "Mechanical components don't mix very well with computational electronics".
"It's time for SSD" I thought. And so I bought myself a nice, not-so-expensive, 90 gig OCZ Agility 3 drive. It supports SATA3 and speeds up to 525 MB/s read.
Unfortunately, my notebook PC is equipped with a SATA2 controller only. And the result I got was around 270 MB/s read speed and access time of around 200 ns.
And what is more important - my openSUSE 12.1 x64 loads for 10-13 seconds. That is from selecting the OS from GRUB to the login screen. FIrefox, Chromium, OpenOffice, MonoDevelop load in an instant.
There are downsides, though. One of them is, off course, the capacity. 90 GB in 2012.. The other one is the overheating - after the upgrade I've mentioned that the cooler is speeding up more often than usual, trying to keep up with the growing temperature. Sometimes, even leaving the notebook powered on, without any heavy task running, heats up the base of the device a lot.
But never the less, I'm happy with my new SSD, and I plan on building a desktop with one. Also I hope I will never go back to HDDs - as one of my proffesors said "Mechanical components don't mix very well with computational electronics".
