[Watford] New machine

[David Edmondson]

On 28 June 2012, at 2:26pm, Alain Williams wrote:
>> Given the significant difference that it makes, get an SSD.
> 
> These are still relatively small & expensive, to they fall foul of my rule of
> not going for very top spec since it is stupidly expensive - and I don't need
> top spec. I am trying to work out where to best put my money.

It's your decision, of course. I bought the smallest I could (40G MSATA for a laptop, so the spinning disk is still there) and keep just the OS and the core parts of my home directory on it. The difference in performance for many operations really is astonishing.