LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

[Richard Gaskin]

Roland Huettmann wrote:
 > Also to be noted by Bernd, the speed also dramatically increases
 > using an SSD. I am still using old fashioned hard drive (.

SSDs are indeed much faster.  After I put in even an old one in my 
laptop, boot times are now under 9 seconds.

But there's no shame in using HDDs - when you need large capacity 
there's no beating them on $/GB.

Looks like waiting until later year will pay off - SSDs are expected to 
come very close to current HDD prices:
<http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/12/02/consumer-ssds-will-be-almost-as-cheap-as-hdds-by-next-year/>

Even now they're not too bad: HDDs average around $0.06/GB, and I've 
seen some SSDs on sale for as low as about $0.17/GB.

And where workflows can take advantage of it, hybrid SSD/HDD 3.5" drives 
are very competitively priced.

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