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What technology purchase felt like a major upgrade in your life? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 172 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Upgrading my computer's primary storage from a hard disk (HDD) to a solid state drive (SSD). Really young folks on here have no idea how amazing it was for computers to go from taking minutes to start up to taking seconds.

Buying my first cell phone, which was a Nokia smartphone, in 2003. Having email and useful applications in my pocket, including maps and web search.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I feel like the sheer jump in performance from throwing an SSD into an old system was akin to what people would have expected from the “download more ram” scam ads of the 00s.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Really young folks on here have no idea how amazing it was for computers to go from taking minutes to start up to taking seconds

    Pretty sure we don't have such an young audience here on lemmy haha

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I find that my M.2 SSD (with Win 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC) is weirdly slower at booting up than my SATA SSD (Win 10 Pro) was. I'm not sure why, since the hard drive itself should be faster. BIOS itself seems to be slower.

    I also can't currently get it to even start if I have a hard drive plugged into the power supply and any of the SATA slots on the motherboard. IDK why. It reads the hard drives when I have them plugged in to an external bay and connected with a USB cable. It's super-frustrating. I'll try a SATA SSD and see if I have the same problem. If so, then I guess I'm stuck using M.2 drives. :(

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You may have an issue with the boot order in your bios. Might be worth looking into. Your bios may try to boot from every other device connected to it before it tries the M2 SSD.

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