lloydc Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 djtechtools.com haven't had to many great articles of late (none that have interested me anyway), but i really like their latest post.basically it involves swapping a disk drive for a solid state drive.http://www.djtechtools.com/2011/03/28/s ... more-11764heres the video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesome88 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 cool.... but what if you wanna use a cd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydc Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 cool.... but what if you wanna use a cd?tough shit, you can't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydc Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 was thinking of doing this to my macbook, but it's only a core duo and probably not worth it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesome88 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 cool.... but what if you wanna use a cd?tough shit, you can'tfail whale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomy Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 why not just buy a lappy with SSD in it? duuuuuh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesome88 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 i could see upgrading being an advantage if you already had the laptop set up with everything you need etc. but not at the expense of the cd drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydc Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 why not just buy a lappy with SSD in it? duuuuuh.it's just an alternative... and a 256gb SSD from apple is $820 at the time of purchase. thats is A) really expensive and B ) not that much storage512GB is a massive $1670 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesome88 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 why not just buy a lappy with SSD in it? duuuuuh.it's just an alternative... and a 256gb SSD from apple is $820 at the time of purchase. thats is A) really expensive and B ) not that much storage512GB is a massive $1670holy crap.... you can get a 1tb external HD for $100 =\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydc Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 why not just buy a lappy with SSD in it? duuuuuh.it's just an alternative... and a 256gb SSD from apple is $820 at the time of purchase. thats is A) really expensive and B ) not that much storage512GB is a massive $1670holy crap.... you can get a 1tb external HD for $100 =\they are apple prices when you configure your macbook, but yeah... crazy huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lloydc Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 ^ I don't get the mac bit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesome88 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 you have to pay (more) for everything with a mace.g. $1670 for a 512gb hard drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggssell Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 awesome but thats a solid state hard drive which is more expensive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesome88 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 awesome but thats a solid state hard drive which is more expensiveyea, but for the price difference, and how small externals are these days.... sif it's worth the extra. I'd rather just leave an external plugged in... even if you have to move around, it's not a big deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggssell Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 did you read the article.... there are other benefits to Solid State Drives, but obviously yes they are not value for money because its new tech.just remember how much externals use to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydc Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 awesome but thats a solid state hard drive which is more expensiveyea, but for the price difference, and how small externals are these days.... sif it's worth the extra. I'd rather just leave an external plugged in... even if you have to move around, it's not a big deal.did you happen to watch the youtube video and see the advantage in speed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesome88 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 did you read the article.... there are other benefits to Solid State Drives, but obviously yes they are not value for money because its new tech.just remember how much externals use to be.obviously i read the article.... What are the Pro’s of SSD?•Energy Efficient. Solid State Drives use less power than traditional Hard Disks. This is a great thing for laptop users as it can slightly increase your battery life. - who cares? what will it give you? an extra few minutes? if you areusing it for djing, as the article suggests, more than likely it will be plugged in.•Durability. Solid State Drives are made to operate in extreme environments. They can withstand degrees up to 70 Celsius and are more impervious to shock and vibration because of their lack of moving parts. With no moving parts, you can rest assured that your music won’t cut out at the club when the bass is shaking your laptop apart! - i haven't heard of anyone having these problems due to "extreme" conditions... i'm sure it can happen on rare occasions, but we aren't Bear Grylls trying to dj in a volcano while drinking our own piss...•Speed. The latest Solid State Drives for laptops can push up to 550MB/s read speeds and 500MB/s write speeds. Regular 7200 RPM Rotary Hard Drives push about 60MB/s read and write. As you can see, Solid State Drives offer almost 10x the performance! - um, ok, is kinda cool, but tbh i never really have an issue with the speed of writing on external usb hard drives.... besides, how much will you be doing while djing? transferring of large amounts of data will be done at home etc.like i said... kinda cool, but really... the "benefits" are not worth the extra $1500 for half the storage space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesome88 Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 awesome but thats a solid state hard drive which is more expensiveyea, but for the price difference, and how small externals are these days.... sif it's worth the extra. I'd rather just leave an external plugged in... even if you have to move around, it's not a big deal.did you happen to watch the youtube video and see the advantage in speed?i can't see the video at work, so i'm going off the article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydc Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 awesome but thats a solid state hard drive which is more expensiveyea, but for the price difference, and how small externals are these days.... sif it's worth the extra. I'd rather just leave an external plugged in... even if you have to move around, it's not a big deal.did you happen to watch the youtube video and see the advantage in speed?i can't see the video at work, so i'm going off the articlefuck the article, it's fairly boring and doesn't tell the full story. watch the video and see the boot time, and the load times when they open 44 programs at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJAdumbration Posted March 30, 2011 Share Posted March 30, 2011 As a total nerd, I'm all over SSD. I'd happily pay the extra money for the benefits of SSD... If I wasn't spending all my spare dough on DJ gear and music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominant Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Im thinking about doing this upgrade with just a small SSD just to run windows and programs on and a larger drive for storage.Also to all those who want to use CD's, you can buy USB CD drives. Which I would rather use than a usb HDD since I rarely use CD's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydc Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Im thinking about doing this upgrade with just a small SSD just to run windows and programs on and a larger drive for storage.Also to all those who want to use CD's, you can buy USB CD drives. Which I would rather use than a usb HDD since I rarely use CD's.agree with the external cd drive. does anyone know where I can buy one of those bracket things (in sydney) to get rid of my cd drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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