IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
hmm, getting booting speeds from 15s to 6s is really something that is cool to show off at presentations.
Sure :). But not only. It also speeds up loading heavy sound files and videos. In fact, the point of the "look at boot-up speed" is to show how fast it is to access hundreds of files compared to hard-drive without caching.
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Real-world example: A friend and I have developped a patch for an exhibition (vvvv, sorry) on a ssd equipped laptop. The production machine (a brand-new HP workstation) has a hard disk, and can't run the patch (it blocks or crashes) without preloading the 15 full-hd videos into a cache.
my personal experience (with an eee901 and a 128GB SSD disk) was rather mixed: after about 2 years the harddisk started to die away.
There's been a bit of progress since the eee901 came out. However, you're quite right: I make more regular backups since I have a ssd.
Ok, back to some more pdish topic :).