On 02/04/2014 11:00 PM, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
The HDD I have in my laptop has somewhat low rpms, maybe that's the issue? Its a sata HDD with 5400 rpms!
5400 vs. 7200 RPM is measurable, but HDD vs. SSD is amazing -- ~10 ms seek time vs. ~100 us latency (2 orders of magnitude!). This is most noticeable at boot, when your OS is trying to load hundreds (thousands?) of files. If you can afford ~$100, it's worth it.
David