[Leica] Computer Question

[spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)]

Frank,

I install the O/S (Linux and Mac OS X in my case) on the SSD. This makes my 
computer appreciably faster. The content does not evaporate when I shut it 
off. :)

As for Tina's case, if she can configure LR to use the SSD as a scratch disk 
(I think PS allows this. Not an user of PS or LR so I am guessing), then LR 
should run appreciably faster.

My main complaint about external SATA drive enclosures is that they tend to 
be 3Gbps only which is about 1/2 of the speed of most internal SATA 
connectors (6Gbps).

Regards,
Spencer

On May 26, 2013, at 15:29, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 
> 
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