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Couldn't these huge speed ups be do to caching or space in inactive memory? For example, you may quit Word or Final Cut, but if nothing else is grabbing for me
by zerokyuu 16y ago
Couldn't these huge speed ups be do to caching or space in inactive memory? For example, you may quit Word or Final Cut, but if nothing else is grabbing for memory aren't a lot of the needed libraries sitting there? I opened, closed, and reopened a few applications on my Macbook Pro with my 500 GB HDD, seems like they are way faster when I open them the second time... For example, iTunes went from taking about 5 seconds to opening almost instantly..
- pmjordan 16y agoThat wouldn't help the boot times or cold app starts.
- zerokyuu 16y agoFTA, those are the two things that don't seem to be improved. "Application results were much more impressive. Because the drive learns, the first time you bring up an app it happens at disk speed. But the 2nd time!" "Boot performance sucked compared to the old drive’s ~45 second boot" Boot performance was improved by doing a clean install, however, the best the reviewer got was close to the old HDD speeds (45 seconds) not a Macbook Air's boot times with SDD (15-20 seconds). If you watch the videos, the speedups being boasted on the review involve opening the application, closing it, and opening it again, without running anything else.
- pmjordan 16y agoAh. Looks like it's a pretty clueless review then. (and Seagate need to work on their algorithm) Sorry, hadn't read the whole thing when I posted.
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- moe 16y agoCouldn't these huge speed ups be do to caching or space in inactive memory? Yes. The videos just show an embarrassing lack of understanding of what he's doing there. During the second launch most relevant blocks are in RAM, i.e. the disk is hardly touched at all.