JoelもSSDしたらしい

Solid State Disks 27 Marというエントリが出ていた。

The first experiment was trying to rejuvenate an 18 month old IBM Thinkpad X61s notebook, which I originally got for the FogBugz World Tour. I got the new, 160GB Intel X25-M drives, which are about $760 on NewEgg.com.

NotePCを再生しようとは考えることが同じだ。ブートできるようになるまでになんか変な苦労してますが。ところでHDDのまるまるコピーってサイズが違うとブートしないほうが普通な気がしているのですが、私の勘違い？

But... compile time. Hmm. That wasn’t much better. I got it down from 30 seconds to ... 30 seconds.

Our compiler is single threaded, and, I guess, a lot more CPU-bound than IO bound. Oh well. We’ll still probably upgrade all the developer’s desktops with SSD drives, because making everything else snappy will make their lives better, but we may still be forced to spend some time making the compiler do its work in parallel.

distccがないらしい。かくして廊下でチャンバラの時間はのこったようだ。