<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 17 Jan 2011, at 22:25, <a href="mailto:RELNGSON@aol.com">RELNGSON@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font face="arial,helvetica"><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" family="SANSSERIF" size="2">I've been getting the sales pitch from OWC in re: solid state drives and I'm wondering what benefit my G4 MDD might realize. It's a Dual 867, upgraded to Dual 1.6 with the RAM maxed out at 2GB. I would be replacing my second HD (60GB) and making it the startup drive instead of the 120GB drive I use presently which was removed from my old single 867 MDD.<br>
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They claim their SSDs are much faster but I wonder if in real life, would I notice it?<br>
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Roger Ellingson/Seattle</font><font color="#000000" face="Geneva" family="SANSSERIF" size="2"></font>
_______________________________________________<br>G4 mailing list<br><a href="mailto:G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4</font></blockquote><br></div><div>From what I've read, they're a lot faster than ya standard spinning drives. To get anywhere near the full benefit, you'd probably be best off running a SATA PCI card to hook the SSD up to as well. </div><div>And it depends what you're using the machine for, and if disk throughput is a real bottleneck. Reading/writing large amounts of data to/from disk, and the time it takes to boot are, I think, the main things they speed up.</div><div>Seagate (I think) make some hybrid drives, that have a small SSD grafted onto a regular hard drive, in an attempt to provide a best of both worlds approach. You get most of the speed benefits of an SSD, but more storage capacity as with a regular hard drive, and they make a smaller dent in your bank balance.</div><div><br></div><div>No personal experience though, I'm afraid</div><br></body></html>