[Leica] Help with understanding the new SSD in my computer.....

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

I don’t think you’ll see a difference in retrieving files, even big image files, from a SSD compared to a HDD. A few tens of MB doesn’t take much time to read out of a HDD, once, so a SSD can’t improve much on that.

Where I see a difference is in doing computation-intensive tasks on those files in PS, which uses the drive as a scratch disk during computations, storing and retrieving intermediate results repeatedly. For example, upscaling a full-frame 36MPx image by doubling the pixel dimensions on an image recently took 15 seconds on an iMac with a HDD, but only 1-2 seconds on an iMac that is similarly configured but has a SSD, and on my SSD-equipped laptop as well.

—howard


> On Jul 26, 2017, at 11:19 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> The top line is that the new SSD  is no faster than my HDD, as tested by
> LRCC.
> 
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> 
> OK. I finally put an SSD in my computer.  It is mounted in my M.2 slot.  (
> FYI, a Samsung EVO960 500TB)
> 
> Nothing was moved to the SSD, like OS, programs, etc.  Just blank.
> 
> I exported a bunch of images from LRCC on my HDD to the newly installed SSD.
> 
> Ran LRCC with the newly exported Catalog, and to my amazement, it is not any
> (?  Appreciably? NADA? Maybe a tiny bit?) faster.  Images do not pop to the
> screen.. As I had hoped.
> 
> 
> 
> Can anyone help me understand?  What good is an SSD if it does not speed up
> disk access?  
> 
> ( Booting up, I understand would be faster.. But that happens only once,
> whereas image access is a few to many an hour. MUCH more important to speed
> up)
> 
> 
> 
> Note:   Windoze 10 Home, Dell XPS8910 computer with 32GB RAM, Seagate 7200
> RPM drives.
> 
> 
> 
> Frank Filippone
> 
> 
> 
> Red735i at verizon.net
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