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I recently converted my laptop to an SSD (from HDD) and I'm realizing the benefits every day.
Android Emulator
I hadn't given it extra thought but I started a new Android project and started the emulator the other day and it started so fast I wondered how it was possible.
Then I remembered, the entire Emulator OS is really virtual memory (run from disk for the most part).
I just started my emulator running Android Lollipop and the Google API and it goes from zero to fully started in about 5 seconds.  It was probably somewhere around 1-2 minutes with the HDD.
If you're an Android dev and running emulators like this (and you have an HDD), you really need to consider converting to an SSD.
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I have a spare machine with 80G hard drive and loads with Visual Studio 2017.
I want to use SSD to improve the performance as you did.
diligent hands rule....
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I doubt you'll find a single member of this site who will argue against adding an SSD to their system! Having said that, one or two will turn up...
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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David O'Neil wrote: Sudden Sun Death (SSD)
Is that really what I want to add to my system?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Quote: Having said that, one or two will turn up...
See! I jinxed myself! 
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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It all depends on cost vs capacity vs speed of access.
For portables and desktops, I agree that an SSD is the way to go. This is not necessarily the case for a home/office NAS, and is far from being trivially true for a datacentre.
There's still plenty of life in them old horse buggies. 
[Full disclosure: my employer, Western Digital, makes both HDDs and SSDs]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
Does this mean that you are able to get "all of us" a huge discount on HDD's and SSD's? Maybe even FREE SSD's for everyone that is a member of CODE PROJECT!!!!?? 
-Randy
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Sorry; it doesn't work that way. I can only purchase a limited number of devices every month, and they may only be used for non-commercial activities. Selling them on is a definite no-no!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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ssd. Bah Humbug! Bring back core memory.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Modernist! Bring back the Jacquard Loom!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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David O'Neil wrote: doubt you'll find a single member of this site who will argue against adding an SSD
I agree.
David O'Neil wrote: Having said that, one or two will turn up...
You definitely know this site. Or people. Or People of The Internet (PITs)
Here they come.
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I still don't trust them 
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raddevus wrote: goes from zero to fully started in about 5 seconds
I'm glad I don't do any Android development then. My initial thought when reading that particular bit was that anything that requires a whole 5 seconds to load from an SSD is a massive pig.
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That's funny. It is an entire OS starting up though, so...
How fast does your phone actually start? At least 5 seconds, I'm guessing.
If your using an iPhone -- a lot, lot, lot longer time.
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So does the whole emulated OS have to start from scratch every single time you want to start your app?
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dandy72 wrote: So does the whole emulated OS have to start from scratch every single time you want to start your app?
Great question. No, it doesn't actually. But the initial time to start was painful in the past (without SSD).
Once you have the OS running on the emulator you can just deploy you app over and over without having to restart the OS.
The newer versions of Android Studio even has a cool feature that does a hot update so that your app recompiles and does an instant update to the emulator without the long wait of copying and installing the .APK (android installation package for the app).
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University of Michigan unveils 1,500-pound Rubik's Cube[^]
This is insanity. Pure Insanity.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Exercise for the body and mind - bro, do you even twist? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Solved in 7 seconds 
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Imagine how big it would be if it included equipment to solve it like this one[^] (from an earlier news item, if I'm remembering correctly). (At those speeds, the centripetal forces would probably explode the cube at that size, without a heck of a lot more engineering!)
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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As I recall, they had to create a low-friction cube for the robot, so I guess the university students have to roll their mega cube back to the lab for a couple more years 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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To get those same speeds, a LOT more than just low-friction will need to be achieved! Spinning up a 3x3 grid that weighs 1500 / 3 = 500 lbs (as an approximation) at 6' across will require MANY horsepower for sub-tenths of a second response! And the material will have to be strong, to counter centripetal force.
Feel free to send funding my way, and I promise I'll maybe look into it more! 
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Well, if it ain't got a machine gun, I ain't calling it "Sir"!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My past laptop allowed me to quickly pop out the main drive and image it (I have a SATA to SATA disk duplicator). The new laptop is a little more difficult to get into - I actually have three SSDs in it:
c: OS, application sw, etc
d: main development SSD, project files
e: virtual machines
The C drive is one of the new pci m.2 form factor beasts, so it's not like I can pop it out like I used to do. Suggestions for backup software that will:
(1) allow me to image an OS drive
(2) background incremental backups - I'm thinking a 4 TB drive hung off my usb 3.0 hub.
thanks
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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OneDrive for all but code and movies.
Dropbox for code.
(This due to not having enough space on either for all of it. I prefer OneDrive, so might spring for an Office 360 subscription.)
I periodically xcopy/robocopy stuff to an external drive (which also holds my video collection as MP4s.)
Years ago, I did backups using a program. Upgraded everything and suddenly couldn't read my backups, so I reverted to xcopy/robocopy. For long term compressible stuff, I 7-Zip it.
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