Thanks for the input everyone. I'll shop accordingly :-) On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <[email protected]>wrote:
> Marshall, don't waste money on SSD (especially not MLC SSD). > Get 2 standard HD, put the checkout on the secondary drive, get a dual-cpu > quad-core ht with 8+ gigs of RAM (or up to the limit you can afford but get > at least 8 gigs of RAM and at least one quad core). Core i7 or xeon nehalem > *highly* recommended. > > M-A > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Amanda Walker <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Marshall Greenblatt < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm putting together a new computer and I'd like to optimize my chromium >>>> build times :-) Is anyone currently building chromium using a solid state >>>> drive? Have you noticed any compile or link time speed improvements >>>> relative >>>> to using a second traditional SATA drive? >>>> >>> >>> Other people can chime in about windows ssd performance, but I have an >>> SSD in a Mac laptop that I sometimes do builds on. Total build time is only >>> marginally better than a traditional SATA drive (a few percent), but the >>> machine is noticeably less sluggish doing other things during a build (when >>> there's any disk contention happening, the faster seek time and i/o >>> operations per second are a definite win). But for overall build time, I've >>> found that RAM and CPU cores make much more of a difference than the drive. >>> >> >> From what I've heard, SVN and searching within a project are faster with a >> SSD. As for the system getting sluggish during compile: this can also be >> solved by having a 2nd hard drive that contains all the source + build >> files. >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
