Disk I/O as a bottleneck?

[Nadav Har'El]

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.

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