06-26-2020, 07:47 PM
I have a Computer I picked up at CostCo 2 years ago (HP Pavilion 590-p0057c, upgraded to 32 Gig) last week I pulled out the existing drive and installed a WD Black 6TB Performance Internal Hard Drive - 7200 RPM along with a Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD.
I also installed a 500 Gig SSD drive on a four year old Toshiba laptop and boosted it's memory to 16 gig.
On both PC's I installed Linux Lite 5.0, the only difference is on the HP Desktop I installed ROOT to the M.2 drive and set HOME to the 6TB drive.
The laptop is at the main screen in less than 30 seconds. The Desktop takes about 2 minutes.
Now, the Desktop also has a Startech USB 3.0 → HDMI interface (USB32HD4K) for a second monitor but the boot time was not this long when it was running Linux Mint 19.
I also installed a 500 Gig SSD drive on a four year old Toshiba laptop and boosted it's memory to 16 gig.
On both PC's I installed Linux Lite 5.0, the only difference is on the HP Desktop I installed ROOT to the M.2 drive and set HOME to the 6TB drive.
The laptop is at the main screen in less than 30 seconds. The Desktop takes about 2 minutes.
Now, the Desktop also has a Startech USB 3.0 → HDMI interface (USB32HD4K) for a second monitor but the boot time was not this long when it was running Linux Mint 19.