On Friday 04 June 2010 13:11:25 Anton Aylward wrote:
I have a friend who works for a company that sells SSD to major corporations. I've seen their sales presentation. It does not mention booting; it does not mention application start-up time. They pitch to database users.
That is the context that big SSD is selling into.
Of course they would not pitch boot times to a server market. In the same light, do you pitch selling a consumer grade MLC based SSD by telling a home user how much of a performance gain he will get by storing his terabyte DB on a large SSD array? I touched on a context before in this thread where I receive significant gains in productivity and performance from using a consumer grade MLC based drive. I frequently swap between many eclipse workspaces that hold projects with large source trees. Having my workspaces and projects on an SSD gives me performance gains of an order of magnitude over HDD. Sure, having plenty of RAM has always been sensible but to equate holding in RAM the handful of dependent libraries that your browser uses, versus reading tens of thousands of source files is pointless. You don't buy an SSD so that firefox loads faster on the second time around. You buy an SSD so that everything loads fast, all the time. Something that no amount of RAM in the world will help you with. -- “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