[rails-oceania] Re: OT: SSD for iMac

2009-12-20 Thread John Barton
> My take on it is, if you're serving something like a Rails app, disk speed > really shouldn't be a factor in your performance. If quiescent requests are > causing your server to hit the disk at all, let alone bottleneck > significantly on it, you need more RAM. > > There are definitely apps wher

Re: [rails-oceania] OT: SSD for iMac

2009-12-20 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
Hey hey, thanks everyone. From the looks of it, it definitely seems worth the upgrade. I've searched the internets and I could find a wealth of info regarding SSDs on macbooks (pro or not), but nothing much regarding iMacs, which is what I'm really interested in. Well, I actually found something,

Re: [rails-oceania] OT: SSD for iMac

2009-12-20 Thread Ben Hoskings
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Lachlan Hardy wrote: > > There are definitely apps where that's not true, like apps that have very > > large databases or apps that are serving large amounts of data, but for > most > > dynamic apps I think that should hold true. > Yeah, that's a good point—as To

Re: [rails-oceania] OT: SSD for iMac

2009-12-20 Thread Matt Allen
Hey Julio; It really is insane, I used xbenchmark on my 2009 13inch MBP and got this: http://skitch.com/mattallen/nm97h/untitled The slow one is the old HDD out of it, mounted in an Optibay where the superdrive once was. Mine's an 80GB Intel, with the OS, Documents, code and Apps I have 43GB le

Re: [rails-oceania] OT: SSD for iMac

2009-12-20 Thread Lachlan Hardy
> There are definitely apps where that's not true, like apps that have very > large databases or apps that are serving large amounts of data, but for most > dynamic apps I think that should hold true. I've heard there are some folks hitting the big tech conferences recently talking about how SSDs

Re: [rails-oceania] OT: SSD for iMac

2009-12-20 Thread Ben Hoskings
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Daryl Manning wrote: > Actually, even more than that, I was wondering how many people are using > SSDs in their servers (if any) and how they've found that experience. We've > got a scaling issue (non-Rails actually and physical rather than virtual > hardware) and

Re: [rails-oceania] OT: SSD for iMac

2009-12-20 Thread Ben Hoskings
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > Hey all, > > I've seen a few tweets lately from ROROers mentioning SSDs, and how > your life changes for the better once you start using it. So I was > wondering: for an iMac, which drive (brand, model) would you > recommend? And what's a

Re: [rails-oceania] OT: SSD for server (was: SSD for iMac)

2009-12-20 Thread Andrew Snow
Daryl Manning wrote: > Actually, even more than that, I was wondering how many people are using > SSDs in their servers (if any) and how they've found that experience. > We've got a scaling issue (non-Rails actually and physical rather than > virtual hardware) and the ISP has recommended possibl

Re: [rails-oceania] OT: SSD for iMac

2009-12-20 Thread Daryl Manning
Actually, even more than that, I was wondering how many people are using SSDs in their servers (if any) and how they've found that experience. We've got a scaling issue (non-Rails actually and physical rather than virtual hardware) and the ISP has recommended possibly using SSDs. Not my preferred r

[rails-oceania] OT: SSD for iMac

2009-12-20 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
Hey all, I've seen a few tweets lately from ROROers mentioning SSDs, and how your life changes for the better once you start using it. So I was wondering: for an iMac, which drive (brand, model) would you recommend? And what's a good website I can purchase it? I'm assuming I'll hear auspcmarket.c