On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:19 AM, David Cake <[email protected]> wrote: > At 3:28 PM +0100 8/1/09, Mark Smith wrote: >>if you were getting a new mac portable in the coming weeks and *if* >>you had the choice and *IF* neither capacity, nor cost were a main >>issue... >> >>...would you select a 7200rpm HDD, or a SSD ? > > If capacity and cost were not an issue, SSD. > The performance win for SSD is not raw read/write, but the > lack of seek. For some tasks (notably software compilation), this > makes it real fast. For some other tasks (such as dealing with really > big files) it is irrelevant. But it would be a consideration for me.
I know that if I take SSD, it will creak on sustained write, but if I was sure that I would get at least perceived speed gains in normal operation, I'd take one in a flash (pardon the pun). I'm concerned by these anecdotal reports of lousy performance. Lewis quite possibly correctly supposes that these are associated with lousy set-ups. I have no experience at all. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
