Reply to: SSD vs HD?

[leapFrog]

I don't see why they would/should.

Because the person that does coding can look at the hardware they are using and report back to the original poster who asked the question

128GB SSD or 1TB HD for someone who does coding?

whether they are using a HDD or an SSD.

[AtW]

I upgraded my development laptop with a 128GB SSD. To be honest, I didn't think it made all that much of a difference over the performance with a HDD.

Not for posting on CUK it doesn't.

[mickey]

I upgraded my development laptop with a 128GB SSD. To be honest, I didn't think it made all that much of a difference over the performance with a HDD. I think if you have plenty of RAM, the effect of the faster disk is largely hidden, but obviously it depends what you're doing. Where I notice the SSD speed most is if I delete lots of files.

It did make it eerily quiet though.

I think the reliability is a bit of an old wives tale. And if you're keeping important data in one place you're too stupid to own a computer.

Agree that ramping up RAM to the limit sweetens the experience more than having a limited capacity SSD. 128GB is hardly enough to run both Windows and Ubuntu.

Shame that modern ultrabooks are normally limited to 4GB.

[yasockie]

250GB Samsung Evo with RAPID software installed and lots of RAM.
You'll break 100k IOPS and 1GB write easily, just make sure you have a backup power source...

[VectraMan]

I upgraded my development laptop with a 128GB SSD. To be honest, I didn't think it made all that much of a difference over the performance with a HDD. I think if you have plenty of RAM, the effect of the faster disk is largely hidden, but obviously it depends what you're doing. Where I notice the SSD speed most is if I delete lots of files.

It did make it eerily quiet though.

I think the reliability is a bit of an old wives tale. And if you're keeping important data in one place you're too stupid to own a computer.

[d000hg]

I'd ask the person that does the coding. They'll know the answer.

I don't see why they would/should.

[redgiant]

All the devs on my last project had a 256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD in their dev laptops.

I have one in mine and I can't fault it.

[leapFrog]

128GB SSD or 1TB HD for someone who does coding?

I'd ask the person that does the coding. They'll know the answer.

[AtW]

Don't trust valueable data to be stored safely on SSD - make sure you do backups onto magnetic disks, or better offside kept optical storage (or tape).

[Scrag Meister]

Did you do any performance testing before striping the disks together. I'd be surprised if there was much of a performance increase in doing so. The onboard RAID controllers are usually pretty rubbish compared to proper battery backed hardware controllers.

Just read this Toms hardware article and it seems there are mixed benchmark results depending on usage but their conclusion is go for 1 SSD. Oh well. :-)

[b0redom]

What is fake v proper RAID?

Using an Asus Z68 chipset mobo and the SATA III drives are on SATA III (6Gbs) ports with built in Marvell RAID controller.

Fake as in software RAID rather than hardware RAID.

Did you do any performance testing before striping the disks together. I'd be surprised if there was much of a performance increase in doing so. The onboard RAID controllers are usually pretty rubbish compared to proper battery backed hardware controllers.

[scooterscot]

using a 756GB SSD in my rMBP. Word is still slow.

[Scrag Meister]

Most modern SSDs can saturate the SATA bus. I would never stripe two together. I'd guess you're using fake RAID rather than a 'proper' RAID controller too. Not worth the risk IMO.

What is fake v proper RAID?

Using an Asus Z68 chipset mobo and the SATA III drives are on SATA III (6Gbs) ports with built in Marvell RAID controller.

[b0redom]

In my 2011 build desktop I have 2 striped 128Gb SSDs for system and regular programs (VS2012, MS Office)/games, and a 600Gb Velociraptor HDD for data and other stuff.

Also have a 3Tb Raid 5 NAS for more less-used stuff/archiving.

Also have a 1tb external HDD for backup of accounts, photos and other material I definitely don't want to lose.

Most modern SSDs can saturate the SATA bus. I would never stripe two together. I'd guess you're using fake RAID rather than a 'proper' RAID controller too. Not worth the risk IMO.

[Scrag Meister]

In my 2011 build desktop I have 2 striped 128Gb SSDs for system and regular programs (VS2012, MS Office)/games, and a 600Gb Velociraptor HDD for data and other stuff.

Also have a 3Tb Raid 5 NAS for more less-used stuff/archiving.

Also have a 1tb external HDD for backup of accounts, photos and other material I definitely don't want to lose.