2/3/2002 - Speed Up Windows 7 Using an SSD (Solid State Drive)
With the SSD device installed, proceed to the full system recovery process. Generally, this involves starting the computer from a recovery CD-ROM and following the appropriate steps to recover the data from the backup storage to the system hard disk drive.
Backup SSD Drives
While it may seem that solving the reliability issue with the SSD devices reduces the need for backing up, this is not the case. The SSD device is still as susceptible to virus attacks, failed software and Windows updates, and power failures as a normal hard disk drive. Maintaining reliable backups of your Windows computer is essential even with the SSD.
Reasons to Upgrade Hard Drives With An SSD Drive
The SSD devices tolerate vibration and shock and are wonderfully fast, especially during the Windows startup phase. They are great for applications where dust, shock, and abuse are likely to occur, such as a battlefield. There appears to be so many benefits to owning an SSD for business or personal use, the simplicity of the SSD lies in the absolutely break neck speed in which it completes its tasks. Quicker start-ups, incredible performance, no moving parts, less heat, longer battery life, incredible reliability and durability will soon dominate the market and possibly rid of the old HDD.
Solid State Drives (SSDs) provide extremely fast computer memory, and as their name suggests, unlike all hard drives until now, they don't have any moving parts.
Ready to go? Let's start then. First the positions in favor and the reasons supporting:
The first point in support of the SSD drive which will one day replace computer hard drives is going to be able to speed up the ability of our computers to access our data. Although our computer's processors (CPUs) have been continuing to get faster, hard drive manufacturers have been better at increasing the quantity of data we can store on our hard drives than increasing the speed. Speed has risen, but not as much as other parts have so that the hard drive file access speed has now become a bottleneck within the average modern computer.
A second point in favor of SSDs would be the fact that SSDs do not need time to spin up to speed before the data can be read, when you turn them on, so computers using SSDs should start (boot-up) faster.
The 3rd supporting point shall be lower use of energy, because there is no disk or platter to rotate at a high speed whenever the PC is switched on.
A 4th support point in favor is going to be cooler running.
And last (but not necessarily least) we've got the fifth point in support which is that SSDs don't suffer from fragmentation as they are used. Fragmentation splits up the data stored into smaller chunks as the hard drive gets older, and this needs correcting on current hard by running software in the background which moves files around and joins them up again. If this is not done a PC's data/file loading time gets slower over-time.
And on the other hand, for balance, the Con side, against:
Firstly, the point against is going to be they are not available yet in quite such large sizes as hard drives.
SSD Drive
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