Upgrading to SSD had an amazing affect on Unity

I know this is old news to many of you, but my CTO recently upgraded my main editing computer dedivcated to Unity to an SSD C Drive, and the results are staggering. It is a 2011 ASUS i7 with 8 gigs ram runing Win 8.1, and was bogging dfown under the load.

This one upgrade, which cost $83 including shipping (my CTO installed it and set everything up, so no cost there) has made this old notebook run like brand new! Unity absolutely screams now. Before my computer was shutting down from the load... now it can keep up with any activity I throw at it.

I bought a medium speed 240 Gig SSD which holds Windoes, Unity and the project. I tried moving the project to the secondary D Drive (still a spinning disk drive) and lost all the advantages. Now I just use that for back ups.

We are in the process of converting all our computers to SSD C Drives. I highly recommend this.

 

Love a good SSD drive! Be careful, though, I've lost two of them! In my experience they are more fragile than normal drives - sudden power loss, surges, etc. Be sure you have a good power supply, and backups!

 

Upgrading to SSD drives have amazing effects on everything, I wish I have the money to buy one .

 

Can't have been good ones! My old EVO has survived periods of brownouts before they fixed the electrical system in my neighbourhood, so they're no more fragile than HDDs. Even better with the latest generation.

I've been recommending an SSD as the first upgrade when people have ratty, old systems. It's the one thing any old system benefits from which doesn't need other upgrades to work.

 

Jaimi, I have heard that. This Notebook does NOT travel... is permanently installed at a workstation. I back up my fiules daily to the D drive, and every few days to flash drives.

Mich, I bought a good mid range 240G Scandisk SSD from New Egg on sale for $80 + $3 for 3-day shipping (arrived overnight!). I have seen them as low as $39 at thye local Fry's for 128G drives.

My project is tens of thousands over budget, so I have to acount to my Chair for every cent I spend now, but believe me, this was worth it! We are upgrading every computer to an SSD.

 

Been advising samsung ssds for a while, great stuff at a great price. The larger ssds typically perform better.

Unity typically has a ton of file accesses going on with whatever you do, so far from being a cpu problem, the minute delays that all add up are often data access.

 

I totally agree with that recommendation, Orb! It is like my five year old computer became brand new in one day, with just one fix! And you should see how fast Windows boots now.

 

Hi Hippocoder. The upper grade Samsung was my first choice, but the powers that be told me I could have the Scandisk NOW or wait a month for the Samsung. Like all Americans, I want instant greatification - plus I NEEDED the performance boost desperately.

I have gone from fighting my computer every time I opened Unity to it being my best friend.

 

I get five seconds from POST to desktop. Anything less is reason to return it