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Re:Poll: Are you using SSDs? by gregholland on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @11:28AM (#1764324)
What I'm interested in is the effect of SSDs on compile time, which is the biggest bottleneck to my productivity. In my case, the build time for Java projects in Eclipse. I've read conflicting stories of how SSD affects this. Over here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499889/ssd-and-programmin...

its mentioned that CPU is by and large the bottleneck but over here:

http://javamoods.blogspot.com/2010/04/hdd-ssd-battle.html

the author mentions that the SSD gives big speedups to compile time.

Anyone has any data to share in regards to this?

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Re:Poll: Are you using SSDs? by cninja on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @11:36AM (#1764363)
It depends on the size and type of project.

When you compile, does your computer's hard drive thrash, or is the CPU pegged at 100%?

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Re:Poll: Are you using SSDs? by sarabob on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @04:30PM (#1765716)
We halved build times going from velociraptors to x25-e for a fairly big flash build. Made more of a difference than core2duo to i7 extreme
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