SSD vs HD?

[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. :-)

[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).

[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.

[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.

[d000hg]

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

I don't see why they would/should.

[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.

[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...

[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.

[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.

[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.