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On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 08:55:07 GMT Gordon Henderson wrote: > > SSDs are great and will (possibly are) becoming the 'norm'. The quality, > speed and longevity is ever improving too. I think it is already the norm, Windows & OSX are becoming intolerable on hard disks, I suspect because it is assumed by developers (OS and 3rd party) that SSD performance will simply be there. Not seen a new desktop/laptop computer for business use in 5 years without SSD for the operating system. It still attracts a slight premium, but sizes 1TB and below you'd have to value you time really lowly not to opt for it. Going above that it depends what you are doing, but most desktops aren't handling large files for which performance isn't important (well mine do but they are backing up stuff from various silly things I shouldn't do on my desktop). That said my personal systems all need a refresh for this new fangled technology, suspect I'll jump straight for spinning disks to NVMe direct to the graphics card, skip a whole generation of PCs in between, but I need some cash for that to happen. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq