[Watford] New machine

[Rob Jefferis]

I would agree, I think the biggest noticeable difference in usability these days comes from SSD drives rather than standard disks.

Saying that if you are essentially using it as a virtualisation host server and not actually using the machine locally then maybe it's not worth it.

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On 28 Jun 2012, at 14:32, "David Edmondson" <dme at dme.org> wrote:

> 
> 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.
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