OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[-Deborah-]

If you click on the aircraft symbol and then choose cockpit view it gives you the google earth view of the heading and altitude. Just followed one in to detroit that was cool picking out the landmarks

That is pretty darn cool. The plane I was following came up from Nashville, went up to Six Mile then headed back to the airport. But the stream or whatever died just as it was getting near there.

[Sharkbait]

Wow, what a cool and amazing site.

[unknown lions fan]

Finally got my SSD on the way, it should be here tomorrow.

I was hip on doing this a few months back, but held off on the budget. This deal came up and looked pretty sweet, so I decided it's time.

Going with a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB.

There was another $25 coupon code that I applied to it, so I got it for $214.

[LionsFanInJapan]

Nice!

[bimmer84]

It has an amazing impact on the boot up.

[Coop]

not bad ULF - make sure firmware is current.

[unknown lions fan]

Got it up and running, here's my performance statistics:

Boot Time:

SSD: 24 Seconds HDD (Seagate 750GB 7200 RPM) 2 minutes 39 seconds

Shutdown time:
SSD: 13 Seconds HDD: 28 Seconds



Performance Benchmark using Samsung SSD Magician:



Quite an improvement, no?

[LionsFanInJapan]

Haha, just a bit.

[unknown lions fan]

To be fair, I haven't loaded *all* of my software yet, so the boot time could go up a little more once I have (but I do have the primary stuff all on there...)

And I've suspected that some software is not playing nice on my Win7 install on the HDD for a while now. Logitech's mouse software, in particular, was a pain in the ass. I'm not going to put it on my new drive.

[LionsFanInJapan]

Yeah, but still. They're so much faster on load times.

[bimmer84]

Good stuff! Enjoy.

[Coop]

ULF - did find that the more stuff you put on, it does add to boot time.

[Panoptes]

Got it up and running, here's my performance statistics:

Boot Time:

SSD: 24 Seconds HDD (Seagate 750GB 7200 RPM) 2 minutes 39 seconds

Shutdown time:
SSD: 13 Seconds HDD: 28 Seconds



Performance Benchmark using Samsung SSD Magician:



Quite an improvement, no?

Not two hundred dollars worth.

I can live with slower times for that kind of change.

[unknown lions fan]

You ain't got enuff geek in you, Gonz.

There are numerous other benefits beyond fast boot times. The computer is more "snappy" overall (think how much difference it made several years ago when you doubled your RAM) and my data is safer because the chances of mechanical failure are eliminated.

This PC is where I'm building my next business, so it's 200 well spent.

[Tony G]

my data is safer because the chances of mechanical failure are eliminated.

This ^^^
No moving parts for the win