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| May 25, 2011 at 15:18 | comment | added | user2567 | @Kop: Visual Studio C# and the hard drive was clearly the bottle neck. I understand this may not be the solution to all building problem. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 15:08 | comment | added | Andreas Bonini | @Pierre: out of curiosity, what language? I program in C++. | |
| May 25, 2011 at 14:58 | comment | added | user2567 | @Kop: not on my system | |
| May 25, 2011 at 14:50 | comment | added | Andreas Bonini | @Pierre: Building a project is not disk insensitive. Maybe you noticed that your CPU spikes at 100%; this means it's CPU intensive. | |
| Mar 10, 2011 at 19:10 | comment | added | user281377 | Rob Perkins: Your argument hardly makes any sense. Only developers of desktop machines could ever fall for the "fast enough" fallacy, but even if you just consider this special case, it depends on the skills of the developer to get it right. I might argue that a faster machine allows the developer to work faster, so he has more time to tinker with optimizations. | |
| Jan 16, 2011 at 4:58 | comment | added | LRE | +1 for the hardware bit. Not so sure about SSDs just yet - how's their longevity so far? | |
| Jan 15, 2011 at 0:19 | comment | added | Rob Perkins | No. If a developer has latest generation hardware, he will not sufficiently consider use cases with previous generation hardware. The result will be really slow software. | |
| Nov 15, 2010 at 14:10 | comment | added | Bobby | @JFW: If you leave the (awesome) performance aside, then you still have no moving parts in a SSD (less error-prone) and a lower overall temperature. | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 12:59 | comment | added | invert | An alternative is a very fast Raptor drive. | |
| Oct 13, 2010 at 16:18 | comment | added | user2567 | From 2 times to 4 times faster for disk intensive operations such as building a project. | |
| Oct 13, 2010 at 15:58 | comment | added | JFW | @Pierre 303 : What's the difference between normal HDs and SSDs if you're not just looking at the performance? What results did you get? | |
| Oct 13, 2010 at 9:02 | comment | added | user2567 | Yes, it will change your life. Believe me. I was suspiscious myself before I saw the results. | |
| Oct 13, 2010 at 8:56 | comment | added | Jiew Meng | For development work is it such a good deal? I know for high IO stuff yes but development? But its nice to have | |
| Oct 12, 2010 at 21:33 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki | ||
| Oct 12, 2010 at 16:56 | comment | added | user2567 | 1. Borrow an SSD to a friend. 2. Install it in your current computer. 3. Open the current project you are working on. 4. Build it. 5. Tell your friend you are sorry but someone stole your the SSD in the street. | |
| Oct 12, 2010 at 16:52 | comment | added | Chris | Current/latest hardware is a plus but I do not see the justification in an SSD. Most of my work is done in development environments on servers in the racks so my PC sees more network usage that local IO. Care to elaborate on what an SSD yields ? | |
| Oct 12, 2010 at 16:44 | comment | added | TM. | Make sure you buy a good one... it's easy for budgetary concerns to lead to cheapo SSDs which have worse write performance than a regular hard drive. | |
| Oct 12, 2010 at 16:20 | history | answered | user2567 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |