Nice to know! I'll check my pc for that.

How do you like your SSD vs a HDD? Any advantages (Revit wise) that you have seen with it?

i cant find the article i read last week/month but this is pretty similar in the options / changes


see page 5 about "ssd tweaker" that puts all the options in one place for you

WAY faster in terms of reading and writing data. So anything that extensively uses the HDD (such as saving the file) is a treat.

Revit wise, it´s really only an advantage when opening Revit, my projects are kept on a network storage, so no difference in loading the projects, and no difference while working with Revit either.

Opening Revit (and all other apps.), booting Windows, etc. is way faster though :beer:

That's true, but for that reason I created a workfolder on my SSD which is backed up to the appropriate network folder. Why pay for a faster hdd and then not utilize it...

I haven't seen this to be the case. I've tested opening and saving Revit files on several different computers with SSDs, and the results have been just about identical. It's the CPU that makes the difference.

But I'd be interested to hear if anyone has bench-marked opens and saves and gotten different results.

Revit (along with most apps) does open faster from an SSD.

I am not sure if I have seen an impact on File open with an SSD, because the only machine with an SSD I tested on was also an i7 machine, so it could have easily been the CPU making the difference.

My gut tells me that with File Open being now being multi-threaded, a really fast quad core machine might be getting fast enough that the drive becomes the bottleneck and an SSD starts to matter. But the only way to test that would be to run a journal opening a really large local file, and test on both an SSD and HDD, where everything else is exactly the same, including the OS install, installed apps, drivers, everything. And to really validate the idea one would then want to artificially constrain the machine to a single core and lower clock speed, and test again on both drives. You could theoretically verify the SSD is faster by just having both an SSD an HDD as extra data drives, but the reality is that 99% of people with SSDs at all are going to have one, and also use it as their boot drive, so testing any other scenario seems pointless. Would that I had a new machine to play with like that.

Gordon

That's our setup. Same computer(s) (i7-870 quad) with both an SSD and a HDD. 70MB file. Open copy 1 on SSD. Open copy 2 on HDD. Save copy 1 on SSD. Save copy 2 on HDD. Single core CPU spikes to 100% (/Edit). I didn't create rigorous journal testing, but I don't think the point is whether there's a half-second difference here and there. Point being, that if you're buying an SSD for faster file open/saves, you're going to be disappointed (based on my results).

p.s. our computers generally have both because we order stock HP/Dell's that come with HDD and then I add aftermarket SSDs. Have a new computer setup on the way with the latest and greatest Intel 500 series SSD, so will see in a couple weeks if an even faster SSD makes a difference... I'm betting not.