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OK, buying a new Desktop PC for software development.
Assumptions
- Boot up time not too important. Only need to do it once or twice a day. Not a big deal.
- Lots about multitasking, running VMs, etc.
- I7 processor
- 6 GB/s SATA HD
- 16 GB RAM
What's a better use of $250:
- Upgrading from 500 GB SATA (6 GB/s) to equally fast 128GB SSD.
- Upgrading from 16 GB RAM to 32 GB RAM.
(These are all Dell components and they do't give any make/model names for them.)
Shopping/purchasing recommendation are considered off-topic for SU. But in general, SSD's will help boot time much more than RAM. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-06-13T20:13:52.580
The real answer is... Whichever one you would benefit more from in your specific, particular case. If you're not worried about boot-up time, then go with RAM, considering it's hundreds of times faster than a SSD, and doesn't have a limited number of writes. – Breakthrough – 2013-06-13T20:48:54.307