Business Laptop User Experience
By Doreet Oren,
Director, Product Marketing, Solid State Drive Business
Unit
Video | Duration: 11:10 min
This session discusses the user experience of business laptop
users in various usage scenarios, and the advantages that SSDs
brings to these users as compared with HDDs. It focuses on two
major issues, reliability and system performance.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Introduces the topics to be discussed in this session including:
the suitability of SSDs for business laptop users in typical
scenarios where reliability is critical, the higher system
performance that SSDs achieve and how this directly translates into
higher productivity and the impact of the HDD mechanics on
reliability and performance.
Chatper 2: Business Laptop User Scenarios
Presents various user scenarios highlighting business users' needs
for reliability, performance and power efficiency in their laptops.
Shows a movie that illustrates how the SSD meets these needs in a
typical user scenario.
Chapter 3: Aspects of Enhanced User
Experience
Discusses the importance of reliability for business users, and
presents the enhanced reliability of the SSD vs. the HDD as
measured by mean time to failure (MTTF) testing. Explains how
system performance impacts the user experience, and the added SSD
benefits of less power consumption, less heat emission and smaller,
more lightweight size.
Chapter 4: Focus on Performance
Explains how the SSD enhances the laptop's overall system
performance by speeding up boot and application load rates.
Examines a typical workload of a business user on a laptop running
Microsoft Vista OS. Presents a typical read/write ratio and most
common data transfer size, 4KB, for transactions required in
Microsoft office applications. Shows how the SSD considerably
enhances the boot and load rates of these applications due its
advantage over the HDD in reading small 4KB files randomly, and the
relevance of this operation in boot and application load.
Chapter 5: User Experience Ratings: HDD vs.
SSD
Presents current and predicted PCMark07 user experience ratings of
the SSD and the HDD, from 2007 to 2011, showing significant
improvement in SSD ratings.
Chapter 6: Random Read: HDD vs. SSD
Describes the mechanical limitations of the HDD when transferring
small files through random read operations, particularly the seek
latency, and how these limitations reduce the HDD's input/output
per second (IOPS) rate on random read operations.
Chapter 7: Summary
Summarizes the subjects discussed in the presentation, including
the importance of the user experience for business laptop users,
the need for reliability, how the SSD greatly improves system
performance as compared with the HDD, and the connection between
improved system performance and enhanced productivity for business
laptop users.
Keywords
User experience, Business laptops, User scenarios on laptops, SSD
reliability, SSD performance, SSD power efficiency, System
performance, Inputs/outputs per second (IOPS), Random read, HDD
mechanical limitations, HDD seek latency, PCMark07 ratings,
Productivity, Application boot, Application load, 4KB file read
operations