instead of waiting for all that time for your machine to reboot, why not have a couple of different VM's set up then just switch among them as needed. The wait time should be much less.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: >> So are SSD now reliably faster than HDD? The early benchmarks I saw >> for SSD were unimpressive given the cost. > > Most of the reviews I have read tend to indicate that SSD drives have > write speeds that are roughly comparable with HDD, but that read times > and battery drain (life) are better with SSD. Particularly in startup > times for applications and random reads you see the biggest > improvements. Most of the reviews I have read or could find are from > 2008 though, when they first came out. Since then prices have > dropped, and I am going to have to assume performance is at least the > same, if not better. > > As far as the cost being worth the performance improvement, that's > really a call you have to make for yourself. I sit waiting for apps > to load and for my computer to restart for HOURS every week. > Definitely worth it to me if I can trim that down significantly. Any > upgrade that increases my productivity enough to pay for itself is > worth it. In this case, it does. For me anyway - YMMV. > > -Cameron > > ... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312702 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
