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Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard Drives

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Re: Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard Drives

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Post by skorgu »

selven wrote: post #109
skorgu wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand your assertion that the second definition is meaningless. Charging the market price is by the given definition not price gouging. Scarcity may be the term you're looking for.

It's meaningless because if you're the only provider your price is by definition the market price. Market price means the price on the market, not the price in a hypothetical fair competitive market.

I see. It still doesn't fit the scenario of SSDs as there isn't a single retailer.

Re: Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard Drives

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Post by scorpioxy »

mseebach wrote: post #118
scorpioxy wrote: post #117

Does anyone know if that big performance effect is also noticeable while running a couple of VMs? I have those dreaded pauses when my VMs(typically 2 at a time) are busy doing something and I decide to untar a file for example. Does anyone have a similar problem? I still run on a 32bit environment so use only 3GB of ram.

It sounds a lot like you're out of CPUs (from the 3-GB limit I'm guessing you're on a Core Duo MacBook), not disk-IO.

No, I'm on a desktop that i put together. The 32bit limitation is because I use Ubuntu and there were some reports of misbehaving apps under 64bits....
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