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Spoken like someone who has never used a machine with an SSD. My SSD is by far the best performance investment I've made in recent years. A fast CPU is worthle
by mpakes 15y ago
Spoken like someone who has never used a machine with an SSD. My SSD is by far the best performance investment I've made in recent years.
A fast CPU is worthless if you're burning 30% of your cycles waiting for the HDD to deliver your data. Relying on file cache is not good enough.
- jonah 15y agoI just upgraded my MBP and opted for the slowest 2.0 Ghz CPU and spent the savings on 8Gb RAM and a Vertex 3. Absolutely worth it. Just to give a rough idea - 4k random writes: Vertex 3 - 214 MB/s WD VelociRaptor - 1.9 MB/s http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4256/36481.png http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4256/36481.png