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Old 08-13-2011, 03:28 AM
ptyork
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My PC is actually really close to their 2008 machine, 'cept I had a somewhat older 300GB 7200RPM drive as my primary. I installed a 120GB SSD and configured it as my primary OS and apps drive. The change really was night and day. Not only with boots, but with web browsing, app startup, just everything. 50-90% faster. Really.

Especially before I had to "tweak" things. My "tweaks" included offloading the temp files, internet cache, etc. to a 1TB "green" drive. While I kept the documents on the SSD, I offloaded the photos and videos, as well. Really it wasn't a very straightforward process. But it had to happen A) because I was running out of space and B) because I needed to limit my rewrites as much as possible to save drive life, and temp files and especially internet cache are supposed to be really bad in this regard.

And now after the tweaks, my experience isn't quite as good. Still much better, but web browsing is now back to normal (expected since I had to move the cache back to a slower drive). Pretty sad.

I wouldn't go back since it is still a whole lot better. It certainly has kept me from longing for a new PC. But I can understand your reluctance to jump in feet first.
 
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