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• masklinn 15y ago
  > It depends on your usage scenario, but for .NET development in Windows I can vouch for it's value. The reality is that it significantly increases performances for all workloads but streaming videos (huge sequential reads). Most of computer usage is random access to small files, and that's a field where SSDs utterly annihilate rotating platters (not that rotas have any advantage but storage capacity, mind you, SSDs are also superior in seq read and write, but on random we're talking 2MB/s on 4k random write for a VelociRaptor to >200MB/s for a Vertex 3; 0.68MB 4k random read for a VR to >90MB for a Vertex 3, for sequential performances the difference will be a factor of 2 or 3 tops between a VR and a top-of-the-line SSD) The difference is, of course, even more impressive for laptop drives: most laptops don't house 10k, 10W monsters like the VRs