Renfield-64 Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 We are upgrading all of our computers to Windows 10 Education soon (from Win 7) and our IT company have recommended that we replace all SATA drives with SSD drives. When I asked them why they said that their experience was that Win 10 on PCs with SATA drives suffer seriously from performance issues, especially if the PC is over 2 years old. I would be interested to know peoples views on this.
Primus Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 Yup Win 10 on spinning rust is painful. We switched all ours out for SSDs when we moved to 10. 1
thebatman Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 From our own experience we found SSDs to be so much better no matter what the OS is. The SSDs are the one biggest improvement you can do to a PC I think. It can bring a old PC back to life.
Patrick Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 SSD's all the way. I've noticed issues on spinning HDD W10 machines with 100% disk usage at times, probably due to the superfetch service. 1
DBazeley95 Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 The performance benefits for SSDs is great providing you buy reasonable quality drives, easily offsets the decrease in storage space available on the drive. I personally agree with replacing SATA drives with SSDs, it just makes the PC feel more responsive and boot times definitely improve.
bald_pig Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 Not being funny, anything on spinning rust is painfully slow compared to SSD drives. Also heads up, both are SATA drives, you're looking for SSD vs HDD. 2
Oaktech Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 SSD FTW. I've noticed that just the upgrade to 10 can kill a spinning disk if it was marginal before! With 120gb SSD at £10-£15 depending on the volume you purchase it's a total no-brainer.
Cat_Jam148 Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 Do it! Single best performance upgrade you can do with older machines.
Renfield-64 Posted June 13, 2019 Author Posted June 13, 2019 Thanks for the quick replies guys. OK, that's the way I'll go then. Cheers,
PotNoodleTech Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 When I asked them why they said that their experience was that Win 10 on PCs with SATA drives suffer seriously from performance issues, especially if the PC is over 2 years old. If you have not fitted an SSD drive, then you have not actually upgraded the PC. Seriously, it should be the first thing you upgrade across the site, before RAM or CPU. Do it now whilst SSD prices are stupid cheap - £17 per drive for 128GB I remember paying £50 a drive a few years ago!
Danp Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 SSD always now More about them here http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/206603-ram-ssd-upgrade-first.html
DalekSec Posted June 13, 2019 Posted June 13, 2019 Personally i don't buy or recommend anything other than SSDs, NVMe's etc. The amount of people complaining about slow PCs just to find out they have a HDD as boot, swap it for an SSD and it's like a brand new computer! I even updated my Mac Cube G4 to one (the HDD clicking was annoying)
ticktock Posted June 24, 2019 Posted June 24, 2019 We are also upgrading to W10 in school shortly. I have 240gb ssds in some W7 machines for teachers which have been fine. Would you recommend 500gb ssds for W10 or will 240s be adequate.
Duke5A Posted June 24, 2019 Posted June 24, 2019 We are also upgrading to W10 in school shortly. I have 240gb ssds in some W7 machines for teachers which have been fine. Would you recommend 500gb ssds for W10 or will 240s be adequate. Depends on what your software load looks like, but I haven't run into any problems with our staff laptops running Win10 LTSB with Office 2016 installs on 256MB SSD. I think that load is only about 30GB. Was running the same on their old laptops and those only had 128GB. 1
XiJ Posted June 24, 2019 Posted June 24, 2019 We put 240gb ssd in everything we can now for clients - desktop or laptops. We’d probably get away with 128gb for desktops with redirection to be honest. 1
DrBeaker Posted June 24, 2019 Posted June 24, 2019 Yep further to some posts on here, the SSD makes the biggest difference. On Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 the HDD usage is nearly 100%. When upgraded with an SSD, it's not even an issue. That's my next project - upgrade everything I can with an SSD to get a bit more life out of the kit.
Arthur Posted June 25, 2019 Posted June 25, 2019 I would be interested to know peoples views on this. The following video does a good job demonstrating the difference between SSDs and HDDs. The PC on the right almost feels "broken" due to how slow it is.
Arthur Posted June 25, 2019 Posted June 25, 2019 (edited) Do it now whilst SSD prices are stupid cheap - £17 per drive for 128GB I remember paying £50 a drive a few years ago! For an extra £5.49 it's possible to get a 240GB SSD. It's crazy how cheap they are now. Gigabyte GP-GSTFS31240GNTD - £22.49 + VAT www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07G2DVW6S Part of the reason these SSDs are so cheap is because they don't contain any DRAM. They are still better than a HDD though. Edited June 25, 2019 by Arthur
Davit2005 Posted June 25, 2019 Posted June 25, 2019 (edited) I never buy spinning disks for boot drives. They are either M.2 or SATA SSD. My Windows 10 home PC has a SSD for boot, a 1TB HDD drive for mass/slow storage and 2 SSD's for Video work. Booting and working with Apps is so quick. Edited June 25, 2019 by Davit2005
gmonks Posted June 25, 2019 Posted June 25, 2019 (edited) SSDs here. We bought a brand new Dell Laptop for a member of staff last year with a spinning HDD and it was slower than a 3 year old laptop with an SSD in. We've found 128GB to be more than sufficient in our school with redirected desktop / documents etc. All remaining HDDs are being replaced with SSDs next month. Edited June 25, 2019 by gmonks
Renfield-64 Posted June 25, 2019 Author Posted June 25, 2019 Thanks for all your replies guys, my mind is made up!
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