[andreaja]

I'm amused at how strongly the for/against sides are arguing in this thread. This is a case where the cost benefit analysis is quite simple. I used to start my day at work by doing git status on my project repos to warm up the disk cache, then go get coffee. Now I just dive straight into whatever's on my plate. Then there's the 20 seconds I save whenever I start up Eclipse. The 2 minutes I save on every reboot. It all adds up.

What I'm interested is why people are so adamantly against. People drop huge amounts of money on RAM for their development rigs, but making the slowest I/O device faster and more predictable is a bad idea?

I'm not saying it's right for everyone, but is there a backlash because the people who are happy about their SSDs are so enthusiastic about them? I realize this is the internet and spending energy wondering why people are so angry is pretty futile, but what's the point?

[elliottkember]

The people who have them are for them. The people who don't are against them. I have yet to see a comment from someone who bought one and regrets it.

[andreaja]

I noticed that, I just don't understand why people who don't have them are so negative about them.

[acqq]

Because if you 1) have enough RAM and 2) between two boots you use less files from the HDD than the size of the RAM then you'll observe the speed up from the SSD exactly only once between two boots. Every modern OS uses the RAM cache like that -- once you actually start to work, you work from RAM. On another side, those who buy SDD "for speed" are the same who when asked "but SSDs are significantly smaller" answer "I have everything in the cloud." Absurd, isn't it?

Edit: The title of the topic is "why are you not using a SSD yet," I give my exact arguments and get downvoted. Eh, crowd.

[andreaja]

Not absurd, just human. People are generalizing and deliberately misinterpreting each other. That's why I find this so odd. It's _easy_ to find out if an SSD is right for you or not. Why are people's identities so tied to spinning metal vs flash storage?

[obfuscate]

> Why are people's identities so tied to spinning metal vs flash storage?

In this case, probably because the original article was needlessly confrontational.

[khafra]

Is it costing you any midmorning mental energy not to have that initial dose of caffeine?

[andreaja]

Nowadays I pick up the coffee on my way in ;)