Even updating to a 7200 RPM drive can help alleviate the perceived slowness. Stock MBPs use slower 5400 RPM drives, which is where some of the problems originate. This can be in the form of a slow startup slow-loading apps frequent SPODs anything which gets in the way of teaching. With Yosemite, we're noticing an somewhat, but not totally, subjective slowdown to all aspects of the OS, despite the minimum 4 GB RAM.Īt our school we are actively replacing any faculty member's MBP's internal HDD with a SSD if they complain of 'slowness' and they can demonstrate it concretely. As such, to ensure best performance, you should use the fastest storage medium possible. In ANY computer system, the HDD and its attendant controller will be the biggest bottleneck. Mechanical hard disks are painfully slow compared to their SSD counterparts. The drive performance is marginally (!) better due to its higher internal processing speeds than would be a 1.5 Gb/sec SATA SSD on the same system. The SSD is a SATA 3, 6 Gb/s drive, whereas the MacBook has a SATA 1.5 Gb/sec controller. It can be of benefit, however, to use an SSD (or HDD if you're financially challenged) that features a faster link speed than its host.įor example, I'm using a Crucial M500 960 GB SSD in my MacBook4,1. ![]() ![]() The secret is to always use an SSD that features at minimum the same link speed as the disk controller. On ANY given bus, e.g., SATA, SATA2, SATA3, a mechanical HDD will be an order of magnitude slower than an SSD for a given link speed. Of course! There are two aspects to a disk storage system: ![]() "I would like to know if hard drive access speed is a bottleneck to my system currently."
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