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From: Rob on 12 May 2010 02:05
On 11/05/2010 22:54, Ben Shimmin wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> [...]
>>
>> I have a WD Scorpio in mine too (32GB, 7200rpm, I think Black rather
>
> 320GB, too.
>
>> than Blue), and I can attest it certainly does have a quite audible
>> buzzing sound which is certainly louder than the stock drive it
>> replaced (which was, I think, totally silent). Once I sorted out the
>> clicking sound with hdapm, though, I learnt to live with it.
>>
>> That said, I'm sorely tempted by an SD. I think it'd be worth it for
>> me, given how long the bastarding Adobe CS apps take to load.
>
> Then again, looking at the prices of SSDs, they're still ridiculous.
> An iPad is cheaper than a 256GB SSD!
>

Quite so. I put a 160GB SSD in an i5 iMac. It did make me realise how
much of a bottleneck the HD is - even OpenOffice opens in a second or
two. But then I bought it more for quietness.

Rob

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