BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

I fully and totally enjoyed that entire statement. Well said.

pendennis

My switch to the SSD had little, if nothing to do with performance. I own a Dell laptop, purchased in 2016, with a standard 1TB hard drive. On two occasions, in a two week period, my computer relayed error messages on the hard drive itself. I ran the diagnostics, and the accompanying repair, and the issue went away. There was a sector error.

Not waiting another hour, I went to Best Buy and purchased a 1TB Samsung SSD. It took less than an hour for installation and migration to the new drive. Performance improvement was immediate and noticeably faster. The boot time from on to facial recognition went down to less than 6 seconds (timed on a stop watch), and programs calls and executions are much faster.

I did buy an adapter for the old HD, and I now use it as a portable storage device after a complete reformat.

1Feathercrest Loc: NEPA

Ubiquity does not connote correctness. Everyone now uses (incorrectly) "impact" and variations of it to mean "affect". Those words have different meanings and "impact, impactful" are NOT substitutes for "affect, affects, affected". Consult a GOOD (ubabridged) dictionary.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

I did that to my last computer and it was like I had just bought a whole new computer it was so fast.

BillFeffer Loc: Adolphus, KY

Onboard Intel HD Graphics 530. It's on an MSI Tomahawk Z170A AC MS 7970 motherboard.

BillFeffer Loc: Adolphus, KY

Monitors Dell U2415 and U2412 running extended display.

Retina Loc: Near Charleston,SC

The tech group that loads what the user calls unnecessary garbage may be required to install these components for security, licensing, etc. by management whose mission may not include providing fast mobile machines to their employees for their personal use. If they lose productivity from a range of employees due to poor pc management, including hanging on to old or insufficient hardware, that is a real problem. In that case the tech team should be the ones sounding the alarm to management, but he should not blame the IT techs for doing their job.

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

Old guys that know what they are doing can be worth their weight in gold, if you can get past the "grumpiness" !!!!!!!! LOL

pendennis

I disagree. I worked in IT for a top Fortune corporation, retiring from the IT Infrastructure area. For the previous twenty years to my retirement, the goal was always to maximize performance for the user, but within cost and obsolescence constraints. And every company large and small has to live within these.

We never constrained performance if it was required for the user to do his/her job. While we had "standard" platforms for desktops, laptops, servers, etc., we also deviated when necessary and needed. We had, and still do, hundreds of sites for engineering, design, finance, administration, computer research, etc., and we customized the infrastructure as needed. We also spent thousands of hours in stressing communications, platforms, I/O apps, etc., to insure they worked in real life. We also had very complex purchasing contracts with hardware and software vendors, and they frequently changed software to comply with our requirements, the same with hardware.

There are those who believe, for whatever reason, they know better than IT what works. In all but a minute few instances, these were individuals who knew next to nothing, except for their own high opinions of themselves. They always believed that the bleeding edge was where we needed to be. However, nothing was further from the reality of the truth. Most folks don't need the latest and greatest. The second iteration from the newest is frequently the "sweet spot" for performance.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

They have M.2s with a SATA interface.... have to make sure it's PCIe.

Dik

brianmcnarch

safely overclocked processors. If you do want to get a new computer try Boxx. they know what they are doing with this.

Haydon

Point taken, I should have clarified that point more specifically but I did mention the difference in an earlier post the difference in speed between parallel and singular transfer. I bypassed the M2 Sata interface entirely. I knew better :) I meant to refer using as a conventional SSD SATA cable interface. Thank you for the correction. I don't want to mislead. I know tech can be a little overwhelming especially without providing detail...but not too much detail.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

My commentary was directed at the folks who let all that — YES, very necessary stuff — get in the way of the mission.

When IT specs a machine that’s barely adequate for normal office tasks, then loads all the required anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-adware, encryption routines, activity sniffers, etc., plus a bunch of badly written, proprietary, corporate databases, then suddenly you have a very frustrating piece of safe but virtually useless crap! Yet it goes on everywhere.

I saw this at three of the three companies I worked for. My wife saw it at her company. She does graphic design and web page development for an international company. That includes some video editing and Photoshop work.

They issued her the standard “bidneth” PC. After waiting an hour for an operation to take place that should have taken seconds, she politely put her foot down. Her second machine was much heftier, and would actually work, but it was still very frustrating. Recently, she got one that is “adequate”... So she put an Apple sticker over the HP logo, just to make a statement.

It’s classic, “Ready? FIRE!! Aim? Uhhh... WTF is ‘aim’?” thinking, not unlike those technically correct but functionally useless Microsoft error messages that leave the user feeling like she broke the server!

BebuLamar

The irony is that I had to order the SSD thru an Industrial Automation vendor from whom I normally ordered stuff for the production machinery in the plant. I paid a bit more but if I bought it thru a computer supplier the IT will flag it and question my purchase.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

I hard wired my first 8088... about 30000 solder connections... never do that, it's not worth the learning experience. I had looseleaf binders full of timing and logic diagrams. After the first 1000 connections you can't give up... too much work expended, not realising how many were left. My only purchased machine was a 286 AST; it was a great machine, and I debated if I needed a 30meg or 40meg HDD... a different time period. My last 10 or 20 have been assembled from components.

Dik