Difference between 5400RMP HDD and SSD in MBP?

[mrsir2009]

Difference between 5400RMP HDD and SSD in MBP? Because I've got a MacBook Pro and I'm thinking about getting a SSD later in it. So what changes would there be from a 5400RMP HDD to a SSD?

 

[MacDawg]

It would likely be smaller but faster

 

[gfiz]

what do you mean what changes? You mean besides upgrading the biggest bottle neck in your system? I'm confused....clearly you know this already just by virtue of the fact you're considering buying an SSD...so maybe I'm missing your question?

 

[mrsir2009]

It would likely be smaller but faster

Would it make the MBP start up faster? Because at the moment my MBP starts up 6 seconds slower than my 24" iMac with 1GB of RAM and a 250 HDD. Would HD speed and OS speed be the only factors in how fast it takes a computer to start up?

 

[aeronauticsrock]

Difference = MASSIVE. I put an intel SSD in a current 13" MBP and the boot time went to 14 seconds.

Ill never go back to a spinning hard disk- I just bought a 160GB intel Gen 2 on ebay, brand new for $345. Worth every penny.

 

[mrsir2009]

what do you mean what changes? You mean besides upgrading the biggest bottle neck in your system? I'm confused....clearly you know this already just by virtue of the fact you're considering buying an SSD...so maybe I'm missing your question?

Sorry maybe I didn't ask that question right Yes, I know a SSD would make the computer faster, but how much faster, and would it help the very slow startup time of my computer ? (don't know why it starts up slow).

 

[newdeal]

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I have the OWC mercury extreme, my MBP 13" boots in 16.5 seconds and word 2008 opens in 2 seconds, I can load parallels with windows XP in 20 seconds to the desktop including the time it takes parallels to open. If you have a regular hdd see how long it takes, it will be over 2x longer for sure. Word opening takes forever on a hdd