Do you have an SSD in your work PC?

Do you have an SSD in your work PC?

  • Yes

    Votes: 91 75.8%

  • No

    Votes: 29 24.2%
  • Total voters
    120
How will an SSD improve things at work if you work for a large corporation? Most things are loaded off the network, and SSD's would just be a prime target for theft anyway.
 
McT said:
I have decided to stay out of this thread - and that includes @Venomous quoting me. My absence of decently spec work laptop is hurting me emotionally :D
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@McT


Hey!!!

I work for the worst person one could possibly work for!

The least that could happen is that I have fun toys to slave away on... :D
 
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moedeez said:
Nope.
My company is too cheap to get us new equipment.
My laptop is over 5 years old, and some staff members are using laptops even older.
As a division netting 130 million a year, it's pretty penny wise and pound foolish if you ask me.
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Yeah pretty stupid. Most of the major corps lease them anyway so it's a guaranteed ~2 year cycle (or whatever).

Splinter said:
How will an SSD improve things at work if you work for a large corporation?
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General responsiveness improves. Plus as I said less headaches about HDD data corruption from shocks.

Splinter said:
Most things are loaded off the network, and SSD's would just be a prime target for theft anyway.
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Not necessarily. The main app we use has a local SQL as backend. Database round 5 gigs generally...so not big but enough to feel a benefit from SSD. Theft...whether the thing costs a couple grand more isn't going to change the risk?
 
Shocking to see how many companies try to squeeze the best work out of their employees while having them work on outdated hardware. That workstation is only half a months salary and will make the world of difference.

Two months ago our division manager went from dev to dev asking if they want a new workstation, preparing a list for his budget. He came to me saying "You have been here 5 years so you would want a new machine."
I replied "Nope, with the SSD and 16GB I have in this Optiplex 9010 I'm good for 2 more years". He was a bit startled but moved along to the next dev.

Companies should look after their people since people are their greatest resource.
 
HavocXphere said:
General responsiveness improves. Plus as I said less headaches about HDD data corruption from shocks.
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No. As I said before, I am talking about a large corporation. Anyone who is saving data on their own HD deserve to be shot. Plus, with all the cyber-crime and data theft out there, they will most likely be fired if any data is lost or stolen.

HavocXphere said:
Not necessarily. The main app we use has a local SQL as backend. Database round 5 gigs generally...so not big but enough to feel a benefit from SSD. Theft...whether the thing costs a couple grand more isn't going to change the risk?
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It will indeed. Especially when it is that small, and so much more expensive. Then again, this is exactly why a large corp will not allow sensitive data to be stored on an HD or an SSD.
 
Splinter said:
No. As I said before, I am talking about a large corporation. Anyone who is saving data on their own HD deserve to be shot. Plus, with all the cyber-crime and data theft out there, they will most likely be fired if any data is lost or stolen.
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haha...yes my employer has 100k+ people running around with laptops so yes I know all about large corporations. I didn't mean external/personal HDDs...corporate issued laptops with HDDs. Deploy enough of those to people that run around with them and you get serious data corruption issues.

Data theft...not really an issue from a SSD/HDD perspective. It's all encrypted to death anyway so who cares? As long as you do shutdowns rather than sleep/suspend it's pretty much bullet proof. (Must say was very impressed that the actually taught us that in training).
 
Venomous said:
@McT


Hey!!!

I work for the worst person one could possibly work for!

The least that could happen is that I have fun toys to slave away on... :D
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I'm in a similar space at work, except in don't have nice toys. The best in can do is headphones to enjoy my music and plenty of coffee. The laptop is suffering with periodic BSOD. In can't even okay the .mp4 on our intranet.

Venomous said:
@McT

See this:


https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showth...ly-fast-portable-SSDs?p=20226492#post20226492
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Pricy eye candy... one day maybe :(
 
Gaming PC - Yes. Primary 240GB SSD, Secondary 1TB SSHD

Work Laptop - Yes, 1TB. 1 line business case that the ROI would be within 40h (increased efficiency = increased productivity = decreased cost).
 
Splinter said:
How will an SSD improve things at work if you work for a large corporation? Most things are loaded off the network, and SSD's would just be a prime target for theft anyway.
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You don't really want it for the speed increase from open locally stored content. It's the general speed with which applications open and you PC boots.
But I suppose it's true to an extent. If you have someone who just has opens and edits documents of sharepoint or whatever, or fills in web forms, then no, an SSD is probably not that useful.

In my opinion, the difference and SSD makes is so much bigger than just purely the seconds and minutes you win in pure speed. Less time for the mind to wander while you wait for stuff to open means it's easier to stay focused.
Then there's less frustration which makes me much happier at work.

Anyhow, for people in the "IT industry", SSD should be pretty standard by now.
The next question should probably be who has a 4K display on their work machines.
 
Yes, Can never go back.

Even a new i5 / i7 notebook with no ssd is terribly slow on boot with Win 10.
 
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