On Tuesday 01 June 2010 13:53:30 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
Really? I've seen demonstrations of that and not been impressed. You could get, IMNSHO, a bigger performance boost by spending that same amount of money on a lot more RAM.
This is not really true at all, not for anyone that already has enough RAM to avoid excessive swapping. You could have 64GB of RAM and your apps and boot will not be any faster because your still blocked on the bottleneck of your mechanical drives. You really need to use an SSD and then try to go back to using mechanical disks. The difference is very noticeable. From grub boot menu OS selection to fully loaded KDE4 desktop (with all the previous apps that were running in the last session) in under 10 seconds. There are some applications that even the fastest mechanical drives in the world (raptors) don't help with. Loading a workspace with a large source tree into an Eclipse IDE installation with a number of plugins is painfully slow from mechanical disks. Using an SSD in this case, and many others brings noticable and tangible real world benefits. Yes, they are still too damn expensive, but I could not work without them now. Using mechanical drives after using an SSD is rather like pulling out most of your RAM and heavily using swap. -- “What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.” - Christopher Hitchens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org