I am also keeping my eyes open for SSD .. those drives should be able to improve compile speeds drastically ... they have close to no seek-times and manage to read thousands of small files at high speed. I probably go with one of the PCIe cards coming out soon (like OCZ Z-Drive, or PhotoFast Monster) if the price is ok. PCIe cards have the advantage that they get over the 300MBps (theoretical) limit that SATA-II has.
The OCZ Vertex-II drive also looks promising: http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&task =view Regards, Stefan -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Ross Levis Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:56 To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues I'm looking forward to larger cheaper solid state drives which last up to 100 years, replacing hard drives which fail every few years. 10+ times faster than a hard drive. I've heard a PC with one of these drives can boot Windows XP in 4 seconds. Prices will get below US$2 per GB this year. It's still out of my price range, but I'm considering upgrading my laptop's hard drive to a 240GB SanDisk drive later this year. http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8040 Ross. -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Richard Bullin Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:15 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues I'm not really sure if 300mb classifies Delphi as a memory hog if you look at getting one of the below computers with 192GB of ram, I foresee a surge in lazy programmers :) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&; articleId=9130538 Richard -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Alister Christie Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:01 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues Currently I'm on 254MB. Close Delphi - 0MB Open Delphi - 11MB Open Project - 71MB Compile - 154MB (peaking at around 170MB) Open a Project with modeling support - 215MB And the numbers just keep going up from there the more you do. I think it's fair to say that it is a bit of a memory hog. Although I have 6 chrome processes running currently eating up a total of 155MB. I guess we could turn this into a discussion of who is running the most memory hungry App and/or instance of Delphi currently? (Currently Jeremy leads at 307MB) Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington Jeremy Coulter wrote: > Does anyone else get issues with BDS.exe (delphi 2007) using a HEAP of > memory? > at the moment its sitting on 307mb of mem usage ! > > Admittedly my current machine only has 2GB (new machine has been > ordered....YAY) but seriously, thats HEAPS. > In saying that, I notic that FireFox is sitting on 131mb too. > > just wondered if this is a common issue, and if there is a solution to > it or not. > > > Jeremy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
