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Can SSDs Be Used For Software Development?

Posted by timothy on from the real-world-odds dept.

hackingbear writes "I'm considering buying a current-generation SSD to replace my external hard disk drive for use in my day-to-day software development, especially to boost the IDE's performance. Size is not a great concern: 120GB is enough for me. Price is not much of a concern either, as my boss will pay. I do have concerns on the limitations of write cycles as well as write speeds. As I understand, the current SSDs overcome it by heuristically placing the writes randomly. That would be good enough for regular users, but in software development, one may have to update 10-30% of the source files from Subversion and recompile the whole project, several times a day. I wonder how SSDs will do in this usage pattern. What's your experience developing on SSDs?"

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  1. My experience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    My experience with STDs has taught me to avoid CmdrTaco's mother.

    Word

  2. Can computers be used for software development? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's a tough question.

  3. Re:Umm... by ByOhTek · · Score: -1, Troll

    I understand your sentiment, but unfortunately your sig (which currently reads "I've had this sig for three days.") denies you the right to express it without giving others the right to laugh at you incessantly and call you names.

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  4. Re:Swap? by bluefoxlucid · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's why USB2.0's 480 Mb/second (80MB/s) is always seen in those sustained 80 megabyte per second writes to SSD-based flash drives, right? Oh, wait no. Well you still have the seek time, which lets you boot Ubuntu in 5 seconds, right? ... no? ... more like 3 minutes? But it's 30 seconds booting off a spinning hard disk!

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  5. Re:How do raids perform? by PitaBred · · Score: 1, Troll

    but it'll be damn funny to see a floppy disk get 100MB/s write speeds until all the buffers fill up.

    Damn funny? Really? I think you need to get out more often...

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