Hi Kyley, Out of curiosity what model is the main solid state drive that has the VM on it?
We have a couple of development machines with SSDs on them and they are faster than the others but not by nearly as much as you found (more like approx 30s -> 15-20s). OTOH we are just using standard Intel X25-M G2s and I believe there are now faster drives. >From our investigations it appeared write speed is the hold up so either you have SSDs with blindly fast write speeds or something about your VM configuration is allowing it to compile everything without waiting for the writes to be committed to the physical disk. The latter could make sense since the disk Delphi is writing to in the VM is just a virtual construct anyway. David. -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Kyley Harris Sent: Saturday, 6 November 2010 10:49 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: [DUG] Solid State Drives for the last 2 years I've been using Vista 64 bit Quad Core with 8GB Ram, and Normal reasonably fast HDD's I run Delphi inside a VMware machine running XP 32bit, with 1.5GB ram allocated. doing a full build of my main app is 953000 lines or so and takes 80seconds or so.. Just got a new machine with windows 7, running the Same virtual machine. but the Win 7 is using only solid state drives. 100GB and 220GB Doing a full build is only 11 seconds.. Worth the money? Very much so.. Time savings over a day is quite large with the overall improvements -- Kyley Harris Harris Software +64-21-671-821 _______________________________________________ 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
