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MovedGoalPosts · 26-07-2011, 17:02

The bottleneck is purely because of the speed at which any HDD can read or write data. Windows Vista / 7 performance ratings will show the drive as being a limiting factor. It's not about the RPM of the drive, indeed the Samsungs have been amongst the top for their throughput.

Think of it this way, your CPU can chomp through loads of stuff, so can the GPU and you have RAM waiting to be filled. But when you start up that program the HDD can only give out so much information at a time, thus leaving the other components perhaps wasted until the data is loaded into the RAM. SDDs can release that stuff a lot faster, and thus reduce the load up times you see for your programs.

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MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 62 Posts: 15,868	Re: Building New Computer The bottleneck is purely because of the speed at which any HDD can read or write data. Windows Vista / 7 performance ratings will show the drive as being a limiting factor. It's not about the RPM of the drive, indeed the Samsungs have been amongst the top for their throughput. Think of it this way, your CPU can chomp through loads of stuff, so can the GPU and you have RAM waiting to be filled. But when you start up that program the HDD can only give out so much information at a time, thus leaving the other components perhaps wasted until the data is loaded into the RAM. SDDs can release that stuff a lot faster, and thus reduce the load up times you see for your programs.