[OPLINTECH] SSD Drive per Chad's Thoughts during" Suggestions for hardware vendors"

[Bob Neeper]

My Dell Laptop WD 160GB drive reached the usual 3 year limit and started to fail 
so Chad got me a Intel SSD 320GB.
The WD showed 3 partitions and 2 <gap> per Spinrite

Clonezilla had a problem copying C:, just getting E: and the boot.
So I rebuilt the OS on the SSD instead

The Windows Experience Index Base Score remained at 3.1, because the same 
graphic card.
But the Primary Hard Disk score increased from 5.3 to 5.9

Boot time to a useable system went from 5 + minutes to  less than a minute.
But I'm sure the reduction is not all due to the SSD as there was 3 years of 
'stuff' on the WD.

Heat generation is almost nil.  The fan just doesn't turn on.
No need for any defrag's, not required with SSD.

So now I have a hard drive costing more than the laptop.


Chad also put an SSD in the Director's PC last year and one in the PC we just 
got for a new microfilm scanner.
Both are working well.

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R. W. (Bob) Neeper
Community Library  <http://sunbury.cool-cat.org>
44 Burrer Dr.
Sunbury, Oh 43074
Tel:  (740)-965-3901

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On 6/8/2012 12:46 PM, Chad Neeper wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Chad Neeper <cneeper at level9networks.com 
> <mailto:cneeper at level9networks.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Amy Deuble <adeuble at marion.lib.oh.us
>     <mailto:adeuble at marion.lib.oh.us>> wrote:
>
>         I'm looking for recommendations for hardware vendors. I currently use
>         CDW-G along with a smidge of TechDepot. My director wants me to
>         investigate alternatives to ensure we are getting the best prices.
>
>     Some of my school clients regularly purchase computers from Dell. Over the
>     years, I've found the computers to be reasonably priced and generally
>     pretty well designed and reliable. I don't know if they have price
>     discounts for public libraries, though. I would assume so.
>
>     One caveat to Dell applies if you want to use Solid State Drives:  I build
>     custom computers for my own library clients (Mini-ITX SFF chassis, Intel
>     Mini-ITX MB, Intel Core i5 (or i7) 3.xGHz
>
> The point I was trying ineptly to make but didn't actually state was that, if 
> you're interested, SSDs could be an option yet, if you can get a smaller sized 
> drive! The performance improvement is huge over traditional drive.
>
>
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