[DUG] Solid State Drives

[Kyley Harris]

David, I'll have a look at the invoice and see.

Perhaps its a culmination of things.. Ram, Machine.. etc..

This is a $5000 Box.. :) I'll let you know the specs.

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:13 PM, David Brennan
<dugdavid at dbsolutions.co.nz> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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> 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
>
>
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