having more ram and faster machine overall, i’ve lived with a 2008 laptop woth 2gb ram 5400rpm hdd and core2duo capped to 1.2ghz thinking it’s okayish since i run a highly optimized linux setup, it wasn’t. upgrade to a faster machine with ssd and everything literally made my system run twice as faster than before.
I know it’s most likely just a figure of speech, but I’d be surprised if that more modern machine runs only twice as faster. The SSD alone probably should feel lightning fast compared to a 5400 HDD, even just for regular desktop use.
I had a friend who for a long time absolutely refused to upgrade to an SSD. Every couple of years he would add more RAM, upgrade to a newer CPU, and regularly upgraded to a newer Graphics card. He also hoarded a lot of data, so was always buying new 1tb or 2tb HDDs for his movies and games. I explained how his HDDs where his performance bottleneck for years, but he couldn’t see past the price-per-gigabyte barrier. He greatly prioritised drive capacity over drive speed, and couldn’t comprehend how his storage devices would affect gaming performance. He also had some odd opinions about SSD longevity and reliability. He honestly thought they were an elaborate scam or a PC industry conspiracy.
That was until his most recent upgrade. His new CPU necessitated a new motherboard. He got a new mobo with and NVME SSD. He only used the NVME because the board came with fewer SATA interfaces, not enough for his HDDs, and he thought the board forced him to use NVME to boot from.
So he literally upgraded straight from sata3 5400rpm HDD system drive to a PCIe Gen4 2000+ Mbps NVME system drive. Skipped the era of 2.5" SSDs and SATA SSDs, and Gen3 SSDs entirely.
He was commenting excitedly for days about how fast his new build was, and attributed the enormous performance improvement entirely to the new CPU.
having more ram and faster machine overall, i’ve lived with a 2008 laptop woth 2gb ram 5400rpm hdd and core2duo capped to 1.2ghz thinking it’s okayish since i run a highly optimized linux setup, it wasn’t. upgrade to a faster machine with ssd and everything literally made my system run twice as faster than before.
I know it’s most likely just a figure of speech, but I’d be surprised if that more modern machine runs only twice as faster. The SSD alone probably should feel lightning fast compared to a 5400 HDD, even just for regular desktop use.
I had a friend who for a long time absolutely refused to upgrade to an SSD. Every couple of years he would add more RAM, upgrade to a newer CPU, and regularly upgraded to a newer Graphics card. He also hoarded a lot of data, so was always buying new 1tb or 2tb HDDs for his movies and games. I explained how his HDDs where his performance bottleneck for years, but he couldn’t see past the price-per-gigabyte barrier. He greatly prioritised drive capacity over drive speed, and couldn’t comprehend how his storage devices would affect gaming performance. He also had some odd opinions about SSD longevity and reliability. He honestly thought they were an elaborate scam or a PC industry conspiracy.
That was until his most recent upgrade. His new CPU necessitated a new motherboard. He got a new mobo with and NVME SSD. He only used the NVME because the board came with fewer SATA interfaces, not enough for his HDDs, and he thought the board forced him to use NVME to boot from.
So he literally upgraded straight from sata3 5400rpm HDD system drive to a PCIe Gen4 2000+ Mbps NVME system drive. Skipped the era of 2.5" SSDs and SATA SSDs, and Gen3 SSDs entirely.
He was commenting excitedly for days about how fast his new build was, and attributed the enormous performance improvement entirely to the new CPU.
i should’ve said like 10x faster lol. even by core counts it’s 4x and for ram 12x.