Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In the world of speedup, nothing is faster than its slowest part. SSD drives are very fast, but USB is very slow, and if you connect an SSD drive with a USB cable you will have a hard time seeing a difference. I like the article to which Geoff referred you. I have a computer with 2 SSD internal drives and 2 mechanical internal drives and I have had a very hard time getting applications to use the SSD drives to their advantage. Photoshop CS6, which is my primary tool, gets it right, but Lightroom isn't as willing to use some drive other than the one it wants to. I suspect that the Seagate hybrid drives would be best for speeding up a laptop. http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/laptop-hard-drives/laptop-solid-state-hybrid-drive/ They might even be better for my computer but I haven't had time to plan a migration to them. They are a nifty combination of SSD and mechanical drives that do all of the speedup magic inside them.