I've been trying to get my own employer to get SSD's
for everyone and they're still dragging their feet.
It's so frustrating because I know this is costing
the business money.
Amazingly, I had good success "converting" my company to SSDs /because/ they're cheap and drag their feet on tech upgrades.
They're a very traditional and somewhat penny-pinching company in an industry that has been slowly shrinking and consolidating in the past few decades.
Once I showed my boss how fast my SSD-equipped laptop booted, he was a convert.
These days, he's using SSD upgrades to squeeze fresh life out of old desktops and laptops. A 128GB SSD doesn't cost much more than $100, and dropping one into a 5 year-old laptop or desktop makes it feel fast as hell again. Management likes spending $100 on a new drive better than spending $700 on a new machine, and users like the fact that the don't have to reinstall all their stuff.
They're a very traditional and somewhat penny-pinching company in an industry that has been slowly shrinking and consolidating in the past few decades.
Once I showed my boss how fast my SSD-equipped laptop booted, he was a convert.
These days, he's using SSD upgrades to squeeze fresh life out of old desktops and laptops. A 128GB SSD doesn't cost much more than $100, and dropping one into a 5 year-old laptop or desktop makes it feel fast as hell again. Management likes spending $100 on a new drive better than spending $700 on a new machine, and users like the fact that the don't have to reinstall all their stuff.