Best Performance Upgrades

Today we are going to follow up on kind of on the last edition we talked about. What’s the best performance upgrade for your computer being a laptop or desktop. Today we are going to follow up on that. We mentioned that RAM would be in my opinion the best bank for your buck. Let’s say you went ahead and did that what would be another option? Or maybe your computer is already maxed out on RAM what’s the next step? Well, I would say the next step in performance is changing your hard drive to what is called an SSDS – Solid State Drive. If you don’t have one already, if you have one then I guess skip this video.

Upgrading to SSD

But basically your typical computer has what’s called a basically a spinning drive and that slows down access and read/write. So if you do have a spinning drive the next upgrade would be an SSD. Typically, you are going to see SSDs in smaller sizes – 120, 250. Nowadays even a 250, 240 is fairly affordable under $150 bucks. When more online clients or online storage having a big Terabyte or 100 gig hard drive locally is not such a big deal anymore.

Basically it is the balance of performance versus storage size. Couple of things to consider when you change to an SSD, you are going to have to or you are going to want to either reinstall your operating system. Or better yet if you have that all set up you want to clone your operating systems so that is a whole other video on how to do that but the quick take on the SSD performance minimum twice as fast depending on exactly what you are going.

Use Read/Write as a metric

I have seen you know performance test that shows 10 times faster but that’s really depending on whether you are reading/writing and what actually is going on. But a minimum of double your performance up to 3 and up to 10 times the performance. Now what does that mean? Well, 10 times from 10 seconds to a 100 seconds I think that is whole lot you know from a fraction of a second to a second you may not notice it as much. But definitely I think worth the investment pop in an SSD drive – Solid State Drive and watch your computer fly.

Learn how to upgrade an iMac to use an SSD