Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

[Elazar Leibovich]

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:06 PM, guy keren <choo at actcom.co.il> wrote:

>
> if you eventually decide that it is indeed disk I/O that slows you down,
> 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 ;)
>

Is there a reason you're recommending such an expensive drives?
I thought some time ago to buy a "regular" 40-80Gb and install the OS+swap
there, and have a "regular" drive around for the rest of the data. Is there
a reason this won't work?
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