On 12/2/20 12:43 AM, José Abílio Matos wrote:
On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 5:39:38 AM WET Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Notebook hard drives are really slow now, but I've never seen one take
> that long.
I saw. :-)
[Oh, wait let me change that emoji to :-( ;-)]
> This is why I put SSDs in everything.
And as you correctly point this is the main issue. A SSD in an old
computer will make the computer fly because in some cases the
performance bottleneck is the I/O component, and that clearly is the
case when installing/updating thousand of packages.
At one point I was upgrading a whole bunch of laptops to the next Fedora
release and this was before I put SSDs in them. There was one laptop
that was at least 5 years older than the rest and it took half the time
to do the upgrade than the new ones.