I'll soon be looking to replace my 2+ year-old Serval with a new Serval to be used for software development. I was thinking of getting an SSD, because I thought it would improve performance, and possibly run cooler and quieter than a traditional hard drive.
Friends have told me that there are two types of SSDs: those that are very fast at reading large files sequentially, and those that are very fast at reading smaller files (say, 4K or so) randomly. As a developer, I would expect that I would be mostly reading smaller files randomly, so the second type of drive seems more appropriate.
1) Are the SSDs on the Serval the type that are very fast at doing random reads of small files? Or are they mostly useful for reading very large files sequentially?
2) Are there any plans to release a Serval with a 256GB SSD? I've seen 256GB SSDs advertized elsewhere, but I don't believe they are Intel SSDs. (And I've heard that Intel SSDs are the best.)
Thanks very much.
Dom
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