Hard drive is officially the bottleneck on the development laptop

01 December 2009

Hard drive is officially the bottleneck on the development laptop.  Of course that isn’t news, but on this Dell Precision M4400 laptop (Intel Dual Core, 8GB RAM), I’m still looking for a solution to the hard drive problem.  Intel X-25 series looks promising, but if SuperSpeed would hurry up with SuperCache for Windows 7 x64, the problem might be solved through RAM and software while retaining the reliability of magnetic disks.  We’ll see.

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alberto said on 12.01.2009 at 5:38 PM

What is the autonomy of that sucker?

Dave said on 12.02.2009 at 2:46 AM

Do we live in the same world?!

My employer's "development desktop" is a P4 "with Hyperthreading", 1.5GB RAM and a 1280x1024 17" monitor.....And a read-only DVD drive.

I officially hate you for moaning that your laptop is too slow.

Jeremy Skinner said on 12.02.2009 at 3:29 AM

I have an Intel x25-m in my dev laptop. I'd definitely recommend it - startup/shutdown times are noticably faster. It gets a 7.4 on the Win7 experience index: img32.yfrog.com/.../sahr.png

Dan said on 12.02.2009 at 9:26 AM

It's hilarious to pay $ 500 for SSD for startup/shutdown improvements...if it speeds up the computer during development/open solution/compile/video processing, then yes, it would worth its money, IMO.

Jeffrey Palermo said on 12.02.2009 at 9:48 AM

@Dave,

I guess it's a different world. I'm the CTO for Headspring, and spending $350 on 8GB of RAM and $1100 on a _decent_ laptop saves countless hours of lost productivity (programmers waiting on a machine). In my business, that's a real impact to the bottom line. I equate it as not forcing your masons to move all the bricks by hand. A Bobcat or forklift can move brick pallets and keep the Masons fresh for bricklaying.

Randall Suton said on 12.07.2009 at 12:35 PM

Just made a post regarding my experience with speeding up my asp.net compiling. The key is a good combination of hardware, not just an SSD or faster CPU.

http://rsurl.net/blog14

Scott Watermasysk said on 12.23.2009 at 7:47 AM

Go with the x-25. I got a 7.8 on harddrive rating using an x-25...and that was on a VM.

-Scott

Eric said on 12.31.2009 at 3:40 PM

Have you heard of this product? They have a free evaluation version and the full version is reasonably priced. I'm going to buy some extra RAM and give it a try. I've nearly given up on waiting for SSD drives to come down in price. I'm also worried about their longevity.

RAMDisk "Enterprise" for Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008 / Windows 7 http://www.ramdisk.tk/

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