Re: Developers need what now?
Dear anon, I regret to write that I downvoted you ... then I thought, anon ? Must be a window cleaner, so yes, when you develop Windows software (clock.exe, calc.exe, browser extension, toobar, adware, or malware) then you should not be allowed to have an SSD ... but, when you build ENTERPRISE software, you ought to have an SSD.
As for wear ... I believe in the theory of this and after 5 years must say ... it is utter bullshit. There is no wear, I build every workday, multiple times, a multiple Gb code base, the doc alone is 2000+ pages PDF, hundreds of files per build, many < 4kb ... you get it ... I used to build just the doc on spinning laptop rust ... 45 minutes, 15 on Samsung F1's, back in the day on Core2Quad ... now on SSD ? More like 5. Everybody in our team has SSD's, none have worn out, even after 5 years of builds ... AND I am the only one who has toggled swapping, hybernating etc ...
Besides, say the SSD breaks after 7 years, could happen, how big were spinning rust drives 7 years ago ? Just about 1Tb, iirc ... now, imagine ... forget spinning rust, SSD's will very shortly kill spinning rust price wise and capacity wise ... easy - not even comptetition ... first multi teras out already ....