Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I reviewed the specs and manual that you got with the drive..... First,, let me ask you what about your computer is "slow"? Opening files? Saving files? LR4 or PS (whatever) version is slow to act upon commands? Other? Another way to ask that question is to ask you what did you expect this product to do for you? ( same possible answers as above) The item you bought is a SSD, Solid State drive. Its purpose is to speed up the OS, speed up frequently used files, etc. It replaces the mechanical HDD with a solid state one.. My understanding ( and I could be wrong) is that upon starting up the computer, the CPU takes files from your regular old boot HDD, and copies them over to the SSD. Then, when needed, the CPU accesses the files not from the mechanical HDD, but rather this SSD. Significantly shorter delays, significantly faster speeds of those files on the SSD. Having said that, the SSD does NOT save any files permanently. Shut off power, and it goes blank. Nada. Nothing. Saving or accessing files will be as slow as before. They will be saved on the mechanical HDD. What I would say is that the SSD will accelerate the CPU operations that are cached, including applications like ( and I say MAYBE here) LR4 or PS whatever, and OS, but ( in your specific case) also including those parts of a file that are cached during image processing. It will NOT speed up the storage of files. Either write or read. Does this help you to understand what you bought? Frank Filippone Red735i at verizon.net http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009LI7CTY/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00?ie=UT F8&psc=1 I thought it would be an external drive that I could hook up to USB but it's not! There are evidently ways to install it in a drive bay, which I do have. What do I need to do that? Is there any way to use it as an external hard drive or would that defeat the purpose?