>>>>> "John" == John J Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: John> With the information i have received from the list I would now John> say that 8 GB of RAM is more than enough. Since Linux caches John> files in memory, the value of an SSD is debatable. I'll John> probably get a 1 TB hard drive. The performance with my John> present hard drive is fast enough, and 1 TB drives are cheap. The SSD drive is well worth it. Yes, Linux caches files in memory. That's great for reads. However, there are a lot of cases where the computer waits for writes to complete before doing the next thing. SSD makes that much faster. Also, SSD improves boot performance and improves first-time-app-launch performance. --Sam _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list