On 13 March 2013 16:54, Andrea Cimatoribus <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Andrea.Cimatoribus@nioz.nl" target="_blank">Andrea.Cimatoribus@nioz.nl</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

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Since I&#39;m in the process of buying new hardware too, a slight OT (but definitely related).<br>
Does an ssd provide substantial improvement in these cases?</div></blockquote></div><br>It should help. Nevertheless, when talking about performance, it is difficult to predict, mainly because in a computer there are many things going on and many layers involved.<div>

<br></div><div>I have a couple of computers equipped with SSD, if you want, if you send me some benchmarks I can run them and see if I get any speedup.</div>