The majority of my client base has been running Windows 10 (and, now, 11) on HDDs. But Windows 10 and Windows 11 can and do run, just fine, and at speeds acceptable to a very great many users, on HDDs. No, I guess you've been twisting my argument and not listening to it.
My bill to the client would have been for 1x hour of bench time, plus the price of the SSD.a very small bill.
SSDs.generally live as long as the rest of the computer now, under average use.and don't noticeably slow down over time. *In the past, spindle hard drives were generally the first part of a computer to fail, and they get slower over time. *I'll guarantee it runs a heck of a lot quicker Spend 5 minutes hooking the drives up to our drive duplicator.let it cook while doing lots of other things, returned in about an estimate 30 minutes.til it's done, put the SSD in, booted up, rebooted.and I have about 15 minutes time invested in this computer. I could have taken the patient computer, listened to the complaint of "slow performance".looked at the system specs and quickly found that it's a spinner.I would have gone directly to (without passing GO).cloning to SSD. On the amount of time the OP has spent trying to work on this computer already.on his bench.and posting this thread, and trying this, and trying that. So is RAM too! I just don't get allowing spindles.or 4 gigs.or old Pentium DUO processors these days. SSD's.not really.īut most of all."Why still a spindle?" Really.prices of SSD's are so_dang_cheap now. But back in the spindle days.we'd often get complaints.especially on spindles that were a couple of years old.as it's well known that as spindles age and get wear and tear, (higher mileage).they slow down. *Daily antivirus quick scans.thanks to SSDs doing quick scans really makes things unnoticeable to the end user. If this is a billable job, adding those hours.may as well have sold them a new computer!!! I do most of that work outside biz hours, and I value my after biz hour time.
Personally I'd rather get it done in 20 minutes versus 480 minutes.but hey, it's a free country. *Updating Windows 10 major releases.such as shoving in 21H2. *Microsoft want to wait a few minutes.or 30 minutes to an hour? How about from a management/preventative maintenance perspective. Stuck with a prehistoric spindle? May as well go wash your car, or take a lunch break.during that Search. Just SHOOT ME NOW!īusiness employees often utilize Windows Search. Or.if some poor persons is tortured by being forced to run from a 7,200 rpm spindle."Slowbooks". Oh.and accounting apps, such as Quickbooks. Meaning, as any business mail account should be allowed to do, mailboxes are large.double digits in gigs in size.
They're a bit heavier.Word, Excel.larger spreadsheets. It's from experience of around 3,000 computers under our command at any time. For power users who multitask, then yes, a SSD is recommended. Yes, HDD's are slow, but Windows 10 will happily run on a HDD for typical users who run one app at a time. Just like a doctor, we tell the patient what's wrong, we can advise them, but we can't force them into a treatment plan. It's always best to advise the customer but never force. We all have different levels of what we consider "replaceable" and that in part is down to economics and personal opinion. So, if a drive shows 5 bad sectors but that was 2 years ago, I wouldn't be as concerned compared to 5 new bad sectors that just happened within a month. I'm not as familiar with other apps but HD Sentinel should be able to tell you the date if you look at the SMART Log. Rush in the drive on a stretcher before we lose it.Īnything between 70 - 90% in my opinion calls for letting the customer know the drive is showing symptomns of failure, and anything below 70% is a red alert and if client doesn't replace, the service stops.