The Sony TZ91 is available in two flavours. You can get the computer with a standard 5400rpm hard drive, or you can load it up with a 64GB solid state drive (for around a $1150 price premium). Check out this video to watch the SSD toast the moving hard drive by about 12 seconds when booting up. So just what is your time worth again? [sysadmingear]
Tom
December 2, 2007 at 3:17 PM
unless you get paid 500 dollars an hour it not worth it. Say the life span of laptop is 2 years and you boot it every day for those 2 years it will save you roughly 2.4 hours, which to be of vaule to you, you would need to earn roughly 500 buckeroonies an hour mmmm in which case the cost isn’t much anyway.
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December 3, 2007 at 1:13 PM
Actually, the biggest gain isn’t in the boot up. It’s in the day to day use, and “non-functionals”. Remember that an SSD drive is totally silent, produces far less heat and is not sensitive to motion.
The practical upshot of this is you can use this laptop in a train, on a plane, in a car, anywhere, and not worry about a sudden movement causing drive damage. You can also use it in a meeting, lecture or other quiet environment without disturbing those around you, doubly so since it doesn’t need as much fan-spin to keep it cool while in use.
On top of that, the drive has consistent, instant seek time. So for day to day use in the Windows interface, it’s ideal. You never really need to defrag anymore, since there’s no gain to be had from eliminating seek – less maintenance!
The battery life gain is actually pretty minor if you compare the SSD to the non-SSD model of the same laptop (Sony Vaio TZ19GN/X)
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