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Originally Posted by vvvvv
My 2.4Ghz, 8GB Dell was feeling slower than fuck so I looked into buying something meatier and found:
Dell Precision Workstation T7400
2x's Xeon Quad Core 3Ghz
16GB DDR2 FB-DIMM
... selling for $275 on Ebay. I guess a crapload of them are coming off of business leases.
Paired one with a Samsung SSD ($80) as the main drive and another 16GB of RAM ($125).
Unfucking believable how much faster this thing is than my old box.
Not bad for $480!
I've never used an SSD before and I am blown away. Things that used to be annoying like restarting the computer now take 10 seconds and right after you sign on, its ready. All of the start up programs load instantly. Checking for windows updates is another task that can take many minutes. Now its done in seconds.
Loading photoshop? Almost instantaneous. Switching between open windows of 20 Chrome tabs, several open files in Photoshop, 15 files open in Dreamweaver, several metapads, colorcop, a few Putty, and a grip of other shit is all instantaneous. On my old system it was torture to have that much shit open at once.
Time to buy some more SSD's and go RAID 5.
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You might wanna google or search on youtube for some tutorials on SSD management.
It's important to configure your SSD the right way and optimize for maximum performance/durability. Usually they come packed with some optimizing software from the producer but you can get better results if you add some more settings to improve performance.
Also, keep the SSD mostly for OS and applications that require speed. For general storage & downloads use a secondary HDD.