topic Re: ArchiCAD on SSD in Installation & update

ArchiCAD on SSD

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:07:28 GMT

Have anyone tried to install ArchiCAD on a
separate partition of SSD?

I know about OS performance gain from a SSD,
but I am wondering shall it make a difference on
ArchiCAD performance?

Re: ArchiCAD on SSD

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:14:41 GMT

ArchiCAD (and its libraries) is on my boot SSD - along with all other apps. [All User folders are on a conventional disk.]

The launch and load time is about 50% faster than when it was on a 7200 RPM disk. There's no difference in performance once it running, of course, unless libraries get reloaded.

Re: ArchiCAD on SSD

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:12:22 GMT

Tnx Karl,

I was wondering if autosave slowdown will be less annoying with SSD
or even unnoticeable if I put ArchiCAD and working files on SSD...

Re: ArchiCAD on SSD

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:54:14 GMT

dasneboja wrote:
Tnx Karl,

I was wondering if autosave slowdown will be less annoying with SSD
or even unnoticeable if I put ArchiCAD and working files on SSD...

Ah. Potentially autosave would be faster? I didn't put any caches or autosave on the SSD in part because I bought a small one (128 GB, has 50 GB free) and in part due to reports of slower SSD performance after frequent write operations, although I did get an OWC drive which is not supposed to exhibit this behavior.

Would be interesting to hear from someone who is utilizing their SSD for more than just app launching.

Cheers,
Karl

Re: ArchiCAD on SSD

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:04:49 GMT

I have Windows 7 64-bit on a 60 GB OCZ Vertex-2 SSD drive.
AC 13 and 14 64-bit are both installed on this system drive.
The whole system boots very fast, about 35 seconds and I am logged into Win7 with all services running.
In Vista with a 5400 rpm hard drive it used to take 2-3 minutes for the system to become operational.
Much faster, feels much snappier.
Since the system is on an SSD drive, all operations that involved system files are faster. So the whole system is just faster, much more responsive.
I think with this single change I have extended the life of my notebook by one year. I was gonna buy a new one this summer but it will now do well for another year, it is 3 years old now.

So I think ArchiCAD just benefits very well from the more responsive system, as all others programs do as well.

Re: ArchiCAD on SSD

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2011 07:54:57 GMT

We are about to install 4 Intel I7-870 2.93 GHz workstations with a 120 Gb SSD disk as a test of SSD-disk performance. The idea is to install everything on the SSD disk and put in another 1 Tb disk for storage and such.

I'll keep you posted as soon as I done some test's.