Sandforce Controller based SSD's are a fast and cheap alternative to expensive models using SLC: 50-240GB Max Performance Max Read: up to 285MB/s Max Write: up to 275MB/s Sustained Write: up to 250MB/s Random Write 4KB (Aligned): 50,000 IOPS
You get 120GB for $220 and 240GB for $450. On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Nikolaos Giannopoulos <nikol...@brightminds.org> wrote: > I run a MacBook Pro 17" early 2008... Core2 Duo CPU with a 7200RPM Seagate > HDD but the primary and secondary SATA controllers are held back to 1.5 and > 1.0 Gb/s respectively from 3.0 Gb/s on later models. The stock system is OK > but not great for development so I supercharged it :-) > > About a month ago I found out that I could theoretically get 6GB of RAM in > this thing (Apple still only supports 4GB) and I picked up a stick of 4GB > (adding it to my 2GB) of RAM from Other World Computing and it REALLY makes > a difference. Running w/ Eclipse, GlassFish, MySQL (not so hungry), Firefox > and it really helps not to have to swap anymore. I wouldn't run a dev box > with anything less than 6GB today. > > The 2nd major performance improvement is getting a SSD. True - compilation > is CPU intensive not disk intensive - but starting up Apps almost > instantaneously (in comparison to an HDD) is something to behold. Firefox > pops open. Eclipse launches in around 5 seconds. The system launches so > fast. But you do need to get a TOP end SSD in my opinion - preferably SLC > over MLC though the new rave is eMLC - and although prices are coming down I > wanted to get one of the best SLC SSD's I could find so I picked up an Intel > X-25E 64GB (I know you said cheap and at $800 you could pick up another > laptop but reliability is huge for me). I then swapped out my HDD for the > SSD and then picked up an Optibay replacement for my DVD drive and put my > HDD in the DVD drive bay; i.e. SSD is primary drive; HDD is secondary; and > DVD drive ends up in a DVD enclosure (came with the kit). One needs a DVD > less and less these days so getting an SSD and an HDD in a system is ideal > IMHO. > > The system CPU and SATA controllers are now my bottle neck but when I > upgrade to a newer Mac the SSD is going into the next system and CPU will be > better :-) Personally I like to get at least 2 if not 3 years out of any > given laptop. > > Bottom line: > ---------------- > - 6GB+ memory > - Great SSD > - Decent CPU > and you'll be rocking > > --Nikolaos > > > > > gshegosh wrote: > > W dniu 07.01.2011 18:11, Richard Hauswald pisze: > > > Backup on a daily basis(!). I promise you: If you ever developed > webapps on a SSD you will never develop using a HDD again. If you have > to switch back... ...it will be hard! > > > Yep, I'm using RAID 0 for my system partition and I'm not complaining, > too. Substantially cheaper than getting top of the line SSD (tried some > cheaper ones and they were worse than HDDs) and performance is on par. > > > > Any Dual Core CPU should suite your needs, I never ever ran out CPU > power when developing software. Memory is something you can't get > enough of. 4GB is ok but I'd like to have 6GB, cause Firefox, Eclipse, > Tomcat, Windows 7, Windowx XP Mode and a Linux VM running in parallel > is not so uncommon for a developer. But nearly to much for 4GB RAM. > > > Damn, perhaps I should be asking about _software_ stack, not hardware > one. Eclipse and Tomcat seem to be better for a PC than Netbeans and > Glassfish are. > > As I'm writing these words, Netbeans and Glassfish running for some 3 or > 4 hours take 2,5GB of my memory and it grows with each redeploy, max > I've seen was almost 8GB. "killall -9 java" became a kind of routine for > me since NB+GF will become unstable well before the take up those 12GBs > I have. > > I guess memory is not a problem these days, since it's cheap and easy to > get 8GB or more even in a laptop. > > Perhaps one can't run "out" of CPU, but when I compare compilation time > of the same project on my machine which is 4-5s to my friend's Mac where > it's about 20-30s, I believe my productivity _can_ hurt because of a > slow CPU. Especially on my old laptop which compiles the same project in > 3 minutes. And compilation is not all, frequent redeployments, switching > between IDE and browser and Photoshop and Virtualbox, using Firebug, all > this is much more acceptable on a fast, multi-core CPU. > > That's why I'm asking about i5 and i7 laptops -- I can read benchmarks > all day, but I'd love to hear what development on these machines feels > like, especially from folks who use Netbeans and Glassfish combo. > > The only other option is to find a shop that will let me play with a > laptop for an hour before I buy it :-D > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any > company > that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. 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