[MrEnigma]

The title really should be 'Your hard drive is the bottleneck/too slow, spend money here for an SSD'

My work laptop came with a 5400rpm 750gb drive, however they provide a stipend for hardware/software I need. First thing I did, 120gb SSD, optibay (removed optical drive, put 750gb drive there), and 8gb of RAM (not near as important, especially with an SSD, but still cheap).

[sp332]

Exactly. I've spent about $1600 so far on this PC, I have 6 hard drives and about 7 TB of disk space (plus 2x1TB external drives). One of those drives is an SSD, so all my programs launch fast and the documents I'm working with all open and compile quickly.

[bbx]

I think what the title meant is not "Your hard drive is too big. Period." but rather "Your hard drive is too big, you won't need so much space, so why don't you go for less space but much more speed, for the same price?".

[stefankendall]

Purchasers need to get their heads out of their asses. It's awesome that you got a stipend, but I've born witness to the following phenomenon.

"I need a $300 SSD." "No, here's another $1200 desktop instead. Does that work?"

Until every developer is crying out in revolt, companies and individuals will keep making this same mistake. It is unacceptable to throttle a Core i7 with 16GB+ of DDR3 RAM with a 7200RPM hard drive for costing concerns.