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I just got a new box.
It has an SSD for the primary drive and a 1TB SATA hard disk for the secondary drive.
I'm going to run Windows OS and my binaries on the SSD
and keep all my downloads/documents/music/etc on the secondary drive.
My question is, should I also keep my Visual Studio Projects and code on the SSD, or keep them on the secondary drive?
The faster SSD would presumably be better for compiling and indexed searches, but would it be better to keep it on the 2nd drive for a more parallel disk IO situation?
I know it has better IO, but all the OS and Binaries will be reading from the SSD. I'm not sure if it mightn't be better to let the code files get read in from the secondary in a parallel fashion. – fr0man – 2010-05-17T20:18:41.807
@fr0man, doubt it, Christian's simple answer is probably right. It's MUCH faster, so that goes beyond all other concerns. – Dan Rosenstark – 2010-05-17T20:36:47.953
The IO with the SSD will be theoretically double what a platter based disk could handle. The SATA bus still wouldn't be your bottleneck in this situation. Go with the SSD, but make sure you have hourly backups. :) – churnd – 2010-05-17T20:37:20.760
Thanks everyone, that's what I was wondering. I had heard stories of the SSDs not being THAT much faster than traditional drives. – fr0man – 2010-05-17T20:42:49.203