I run a shop and of all the laptops I refurbished this year, two had SATA III controllers. The ones you really want to make faster are the least likely to have a SATA III controller of course.
I've built about 200 custom PCs at my shop with SSDs and put them in about 10 laptops. Btw you can almost definitely, no matter what model laptop, drop a P8700 chip in there for a Win7 benchmark rating of 6.2. They're a whopping $10 on ebay. I just upgraded two Dell laptops with T4300's in them originally with a pair of P8700's and they're soooooooo much faster!
Why can't people get it through their thick heads. Hey I know a great business model!
1. start a business
2. make a stance on a 50/50 topic like marriage or abortion that has absolutely nothing to do with your company in any way
3. go bankrupt
You are so far off, it's comical. Some laptops have a SATA controller that's just a SATA physical port connected to an IDE controller. Some have geniune SATA I which I think goes 100MB/s or something. SATAII runs at a pathetic 300-350MB cap in real world performance. SATAIII which is more of a 2011 and later product in laptops has enough bandwidth to properly run an SSD. I put a 256MB high performance SSD in my laptop with a core2 7350 and 4GB of RAM and it's pathetic compared to new laptops due solely to the SATA II controller.
Why move the profile in Windows? You can independently relocated My Music, My Pictures, My Documents, the Desktop, and I think also the internet cache. Then leave the actual folder itself and app data especially (hello, performance much?) on the SSD.
Rip out the mini PCI-E wireless card, go to a USB-based N150HG from rosewill (actually a realtek product) and put a crucial M500-series PCI-E-based SSD into it. Tada, two "hard drive" slots.
Well, you're wrong. 4GB is enough for almost every average user. Gamers need 8GB but no game I've ever heard of uses more than 5GB of total space while running. 16GB is basically video editing only. So no, don't max out the RAM just for the fun of it. Going from 4GB to 8GB won't do a thing for you if all you do is web browse. It would have absolutely zero impact on performance at all.
I sure hope you're checking if it's a SATAII or SATAIII controller first. It sounds like you're not, you're epically screwing up. Yeah they run but at half speed and with half the features disabled.
It's the worst idea ever. Same with Intel's solution with cache drives. It's like an SSD except only the write speed improves since data is still fetched off the actual spinning storage drive the majority of the time if not all the time. Then you get a 32GB cache SSD that receives every single write ever written to the system. It'd fail within a year or two. Three SSDs in a RAID5 is a vastly superior solution or just buy a 480GB Crucial M500 for $230.
Another interesting fact can be determined by the document. Michael W. Shore doesn't know how to sign his own name or initials or anything vaguely resembling the English language.
"does an organization have any excuse if their password database is disclosed and user passwords are cracked?."
Yes: 1. hiring incompetent morons
2. insufficient budget for IT work
3. idiot contractors/vendors
So you bring in someone from Pepsi and his requirements and strategies are crap and...the whole project collapses? Eliminate the consultant and end the relationship with Pepsi then find a different sponsor. So clearly there's more to it collapsing than just the Pepsi guy.
This is really strange. It takes a billion to cleanup a not-exploded nuclear plant? Just ship out the radioactive stuff, erase the computers, destroy the classified tech, and it's a medium sized corporate demolition job. That's a millions tops. I don't see where the billion parts comes in.
And then there's why the heck are they shutting it down early? If it's safety reasons, just fix the safety issues. I bet that doesn't cost a billion.
That's pretty far from reality. Tough? They have a 40% higher failure rate than "budget" level laptops. Also, if the processor takes 3x longer to perform every single task, who cares if the battery lasts 9 hours. I'd rather get my work done in 3 hours on a 3 hour battery. Also, Toshiba C50 laptops are 15.6" and 5.3 pounds and get 6 hours on the battery with a pentium ivy bridge chip.
Wearable tech died because people realized 2x the batteries to worry about and needless cost doesn't justify a bulky and annoying device attached to you with very little benefit. Netbooks died when people realized you can't type on them very well and can't see the screen. For the exact same reason plus the unbelievably short useable life rating and failure rate, why are tablets still around? They're netbooks with no keyboards.
At my shop, when people ask, I tell them to buy anything but Western Digital for hard drive products. You plug in one of their mybooks and it's recognized as a fake DVD drive. It's fake encrypted and protected by their fake and unbelievably annoying feature. That's the tip of the iceberg because not even their WD version of acronis works properly.
Cabs are a stupid, no money industry that's dying. Let it die. When governments prop up ancient technology and services, nobody benefits. "Protecting" a bad business from cheaper competition is irresponsible. This is a free market. Cab companies can operate cheaper and more efficiently and make their own apps or lose and go out of business.
Anyone who makes a youtube clone with less ads and no stupid social-tie-in comment system will demolish youtube very quickly. Unfortunately, since it's Yahoo, they're incapable of doing that. They will screw it up epically.
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Mine is GLORIOUS! Unfortunately, my signature (unlike Michael's) contains my first and last name so I won't post it here.
That's exactly how hybrid drives work. Cache drives don't work at all that way.
I run a shop and of all the laptops I refurbished this year, two had SATA III controllers. The ones you really want to make faster are the least likely to have a SATA III controller of course.
Just simply because almost none of them have one.
It almost always comes with a 5 foot extension that ends in a weighted dock.
I've built about 200 custom PCs at my shop with SSDs and put them in about 10 laptops. Btw you can almost definitely, no matter what model laptop, drop a P8700 chip in there for a Win7 benchmark rating of 6.2. They're a whopping $10 on ebay. I just upgraded two Dell laptops with T4300's in them originally with a pair of P8700's and they're soooooooo much faster!
Why can't people get it through their thick heads. Hey I know a great business model!
1. start a business
2. make a stance on a 50/50 topic like marriage or abortion that has absolutely nothing to do with your company in any way
3. go bankrupt
You are so far off, it's comical. Some laptops have a SATA controller that's just a SATA physical port connected to an IDE controller. Some have geniune SATA I which I think goes 100MB/s or something. SATAII runs at a pathetic 300-350MB cap in real world performance. SATAIII which is more of a 2011 and later product in laptops has enough bandwidth to properly run an SSD. I put a 256MB high performance SSD in my laptop with a core2 7350 and 4GB of RAM and it's pathetic compared to new laptops due solely to the SATA II controller.
Why move the profile in Windows? You can independently relocated My Music, My Pictures, My Documents, the Desktop, and I think also the internet cache. Then leave the actual folder itself and app data especially (hello, performance much?) on the SSD.
Rip out the mini PCI-E wireless card, go to a USB-based N150HG from rosewill (actually a realtek product) and put a crucial M500-series PCI-E-based SSD into it. Tada, two "hard drive" slots.
Well, you're wrong. 4GB is enough for almost every average user. Gamers need 8GB but no game I've ever heard of uses more than 5GB of total space while running. 16GB is basically video editing only. So no, don't max out the RAM just for the fun of it. Going from 4GB to 8GB won't do a thing for you if all you do is web browse. It would have absolutely zero impact on performance at all.
I sure hope you're checking if it's a SATAII or SATAIII controller first. It sounds like you're not, you're epically screwing up. Yeah they run but at half speed and with half the features disabled.
It's the worst idea ever. Same with Intel's solution with cache drives. It's like an SSD except only the write speed improves since data is still fetched off the actual spinning storage drive the majority of the time if not all the time. Then you get a 32GB cache SSD that receives every single write ever written to the system. It'd fail within a year or two. Three SSDs in a RAID5 is a vastly superior solution or just buy a 480GB Crucial M500 for $230.
"Obviously, the first performance enhancement you do on any computer you own is max out the RAM"
What kind of clueless moron wrote that nonsense?
Another interesting fact can be determined by the document. Michael W. Shore doesn't know how to sign his own name or initials or anything vaguely resembling the English language.
"does an organization have any excuse if their password database is disclosed and user passwords are cracked?."
Yes: 1. hiring incompetent morons
2. insufficient budget for IT work
3. idiot contractors/vendors
So you bring in someone from Pepsi and his requirements and strategies are crap and...the whole project collapses? Eliminate the consultant and end the relationship with Pepsi then find a different sponsor. So clearly there's more to it collapsing than just the Pepsi guy.
This is really strange. It takes a billion to cleanup a not-exploded nuclear plant? Just ship out the radioactive stuff, erase the computers, destroy the classified tech, and it's a medium sized corporate demolition job. That's a millions tops. I don't see where the billion parts comes in.
And then there's why the heck are they shutting it down early? If it's safety reasons, just fix the safety issues. I bet that doesn't cost a billion.
That's pretty far from reality. Tough? They have a 40% higher failure rate than "budget" level laptops. Also, if the processor takes 3x longer to perform every single task, who cares if the battery lasts 9 hours. I'd rather get my work done in 3 hours on a 3 hour battery. Also, Toshiba C50 laptops are 15.6" and 5.3 pounds and get 6 hours on the battery with a pentium ivy bridge chip.
Wearable tech died because people realized 2x the batteries to worry about and needless cost doesn't justify a bulky and annoying device attached to you with very little benefit. Netbooks died when people realized you can't type on them very well and can't see the screen. For the exact same reason plus the unbelievably short useable life rating and failure rate, why are tablets still around? They're netbooks with no keyboards.
At my shop, when people ask, I tell them to buy anything but Western Digital for hard drive products. You plug in one of their mybooks and it's recognized as a fake DVD drive. It's fake encrypted and protected by their fake and unbelievably annoying feature. That's the tip of the iceberg because not even their WD version of acronis works properly.
No, the science was how whale internal organs cure cancer and give you more spirit energy for yoga. Now that's hardcore, book science right there.
Cabs are a stupid, no money industry that's dying. Let it die. When governments prop up ancient technology and services, nobody benefits. "Protecting" a bad business from cheaper competition is irresponsible. This is a free market. Cab companies can operate cheaper and more efficiently and make their own apps or lose and go out of business.
Anyone who makes a youtube clone with less ads and no stupid social-tie-in comment system will demolish youtube very quickly. Unfortunately, since it's Yahoo, they're incapable of doing that. They will screw it up epically.
He's close. It's actually the final piece of go fuck yourself because now NOBODY is going to buy it.