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OfTheThorn
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Not sure where to post this, but I guess it falls under this section. If I install, for example, Visual Studio, on my SSD, and my projects on the HDD. Do I still get the advantages of the SSD?

 

Sorry for the dumb question, beginning programmer :-/

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1 minute ago, OfTheThorn said:

Not sure where to post this, but I guess it falls under this section. If I install, for example, Visual Studio, on my SSD, and my projects on the HDD. Do I still get the advantages of the SSD?

 

Sorry for the dumb question, beginning programmer :-/

Yes, the files on your hdd would be small so you probably wouldn't notice much slowness when reading/writing these compared to an SSD.

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Unless your projects reach 100MB is size, the performance difference between having projects in HDD and SSD wont be that noticeable. Getting the app itself in the SSD is the most beneficial action for now.

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36 minutes ago, OfTheThorn said:

Not sure where to post this, but I guess it falls under this section. If I install, for example, Visual Studio, on my SSD, and my projects on the HDD. Do I still get the advantages of the SSD?

 

Sorry for the dumb question, beginning programmer :-/

I'd do it the other way around. Put the projects on the SSD. Accessing all the, relatively small, source code files is the bottleneck in the compilation process. And compiling is the part where you want speed gains (for large projects, at least). The rest of programming is basically just a glorified text-editor.

 

But why not put everything on the SSD ?

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I'd argue even with large projects, compilation time, depending on how good the compiler is, is an upfront thing. That is, the large compile times are only a thing when you first build the project. When you continue developing it, the compiler should only recompile things that were changed or things affected by that change. The stuff I do at work (and I've worked on relatively large projects) is on an HDD based system. It doesn't take very long to recompile after making changes versus the upfront cost of compiling the project for the first time.

 

However, I would recommend not putting source files on an SSD if you're trying to save space on it unless compile time becomes a problem.

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