On Sat, May 07, 2011, guy keren wrote about "Re: Disk I/O as a bottleneck?": > and if you have a lot of money to spend - you could consider buying an > enterprise-grade SSD (e.g. from fusion I/O or from OCZ - although for > your use-case, some of the cheaper SSDs will do) and use it instead of > the hard disks. they only cost thousands of dollars for a 600GB SSD ;)
Instead of buying a huge SSD for "thousands of dollars" another option you might consider is to buy a relatively small SSD with just enough space to hold your "/" partition and swap space. Even 20 G may be enough. The rest of your disk - holding your source code, photos, songs, movies, or whatever you typically fill a terabyte with, will be a normal, cheap, hard disk. Several of my friends have gone with such a setup on their latest computer, and they are very pleased. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, May 8 2011, 4 Iyyar 5771 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |My password is my dog's name. His name is http://nadav.harel.org.il |a#j!4@h, but I change it every month. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
