alt Hacker NewsSSDs were such a revolution though, and a really rewarding upgrade. I'd fit SSDs to friend and family computers as an upgrade.
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sigmoid10 • yesterday at 3:35 PM
I once had a decade old Thinkpad that suddenly became my new work laptop once more thanks to an SSD. It's a true shame they simply don't make them like this anymore.
patwolf • yesterday at 7:41 PM
I owe much of my career to an SSD. I had a work laptop that I upgraded myself with an 80GB Intel SSD, which was pretty exotic at the time. It was so fast at grepping through code that I could answer colleagues’ questions about the code in nearly real time. It was like having a superpower.
dcminter • yesterday at 3:56 PM
Just before I installed an SSD was the last time I owned a computer that felt slow.
Getting my first SSD was absolutely the best computer upgrade I've ever bought. I didn't even realise how annoying load times were because I was so used to them and coming from C64s and Amigas even spinning rust seemed fairly quick.
It took a long time before I felt a need to improve my PC's performance again after that.