Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: RAM or GHz: Can Hardware speed up Studio 2011?
Poster: Mark Benson
Post title: SSD won't solve the problem, GHz will
The only time I experience Studio 2011 as notably fast and smooth was on a desktop with 6 cores @ 3.5 GHz + 8 GB RAM.
SSD reads and writes faster than an HDD. From what I've heard, people working with video editing choose SSD because it actually saves them time and makes them more productive. For Trados I'm pretty sure that you can forget about any such advantages, except as has already been stated, when it comes to the boot time of your PC...
If I find one cheap enough to give it a try, I would use it alongside an HDD with the OS and files + software for work on the SSD and everything else on the HDD... Making wear even less of an issue.
The replacement procedure is actually easy, in most cases. But the solution you're looking for isn't an SSD.
Maybe your processor doesn't support more than 4 GB or RAM. In that case I would consider upgrading to a new machine if I were you. Keep in mind that Trados 2014 is coming.
Otherwise I would simply upgrade the RAM to 8 GB to see what kind of improvement that brings about. I would buy two sticks of 4 GB each (and appropriate Hz) that I would be able to use on my next machine, or desktop, if the upgrade didn't make the difference I was looking for on the machine I was testing them on.
Hardware can speed up Studio 2011, there is no question about it. I've used it on several machines. If you think about what Studio does, you realize that the more GHz it has to do it with the better.
One of the first machines I ran it on had 2 cores @ 2.5 GHz + 4 GB of RAM. I didn't have any real problems running Studio 2011 on it, which I had on the previous machine that was 2 cores @ 1.8 GHz + 4 GB RAM. It wasn't fast either, but I worked a lot with this config and it was perfectly fine for me.
But as a final answer to you, try with RAM first unless your machine is so old you won't be able to use the sticks you buy on a newer one. It's a relatively cheap upgrade, depending on how many slots you have. Even a 4 GB stick shouldn't be too expensive.
Then if this doesn't solve your problem, you will have to get a new machine to notice a difference. Forget about SSDs, they're expensive and will definitely not make the difference you're looking for, if I understand your problem correctly.
Topic: RAM or GHz: Can Hardware speed up Studio 2011?
Poster: Mark Benson
Post title: SSD won't solve the problem, GHz will
The only time I experience Studio 2011 as notably fast and smooth was on a desktop with 6 cores @ 3.5 GHz + 8 GB RAM.
SSD reads and writes faster than an HDD. From what I've heard, people working with video editing choose SSD because it actually saves them time and makes them more productive. For Trados I'm pretty sure that you can forget about any such advantages, except as has already been stated, when it comes to the boot time of your PC...
If I find one cheap enough to give it a try, I would use it alongside an HDD with the OS and files + software for work on the SSD and everything else on the HDD... Making wear even less of an issue.
The replacement procedure is actually easy, in most cases. But the solution you're looking for isn't an SSD.
Maybe your processor doesn't support more than 4 GB or RAM. In that case I would consider upgrading to a new machine if I were you. Keep in mind that Trados 2014 is coming.
Otherwise I would simply upgrade the RAM to 8 GB to see what kind of improvement that brings about. I would buy two sticks of 4 GB each (and appropriate Hz) that I would be able to use on my next machine, or desktop, if the upgrade didn't make the difference I was looking for on the machine I was testing them on.
Hardware can speed up Studio 2011, there is no question about it. I've used it on several machines. If you think about what Studio does, you realize that the more GHz it has to do it with the better.
One of the first machines I ran it on had 2 cores @ 2.5 GHz + 4 GB of RAM. I didn't have any real problems running Studio 2011 on it, which I had on the previous machine that was 2 cores @ 1.8 GHz + 4 GB RAM. It wasn't fast either, but I worked a lot with this config and it was perfectly fine for me.
But as a final answer to you, try with RAM first unless your machine is so old you won't be able to use the sticks you buy on a newer one. It's a relatively cheap upgrade, depending on how many slots you have. Even a 4 GB stick shouldn't be too expensive.
Then if this doesn't solve your problem, you will have to get a new machine to notice a difference. Forget about SSDs, they're expensive and will definitely not make the difference you're looking for, if I understand your problem correctly.