Anyone running Lightroom on laptop with an SSD?

[bigrob]

I bought an old (2009) Thinkpad x200 laptop on Fleabay.

It runs a core 2 duo 2.26ghz CPU with 4gb of RAM and an Hitachi 160Gb 7200k hard disk.

I have just ordered a 128Gb Kingston SSD. This is a SATA II drive so the write speeds are pretty much half of what can be expected with a SATA III SSD (but the x200 only has SATA II built in).

According to Kingston the max I should get is

Read speed: 250 MB/s
Write speed: 230 MB/s

I just tested the Hitachi and it has an average read of 84MB/s.

So I'm hoping for a vast improvement in speed - not that it's slow now.

Anyone here running an SSD? What kind of improvements have you seen in general terms and also in Photoshop/Lightroom?

 

[the888account]

I'm thinking of getting hybrid SSD - but not expecting a performance increase so to speak, but rather quicker boot, quicker application loading etc - but once things are up and open, your reliant of RAM and processing power to do 'functions' like create a panoramic image for example.

So - not sure you will see a huge jump in performance in PS and LR - other than time it takes to them load up. - Or at least thats what I'm expecting anyway when I get around to ordering mine.

 

[bigrob]

Got the SSD today.

As expected the bootup times is fast - 13 seconds to login screen, then another 5 after login until it's ready for action.

I haven't done any LR tests but as you say it may not be that much quicker if it's CPU intensive.

 

[DaveHope]

I have a Crucial SSD (128Gb) in my laptop as the boot device and then a second disk in the CD tray (whoever uses CD/DVDs these days?) The second drive is a 500Gb 7200RPM disk and holds my lightroom photos and catalog.

The main performance boost will come from running off another disk, no need for it to be an expensive SSD

 

[bigrob]

Hi Dave

I have just ordered the HDD module for a 2nd disk in the UltraBase.