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Hi there
this is NOT a post over relative merits of W7 / W8 but all I want to say here is that using a spare 840 Samsung 250 GB SSD (SPARE !!! -- actually I've just had a decent tax refund so I thought I'd get another decent SSD !!! ) I copied a W7 VM with the minisap system on it to the SSD.
I plugged the SSD into a USB 3 port on a laptop via the USB2 (yes USB2) ==> sata interface adapter that came with the drive (and actually it was on a USB3 HUB shared with two other USB3 passport external drives) and fired up the VM.
Response time was FASTER (after VM boot and starting the SAP development system) than on the HOST system !!! and this was with a USB2 adapter rather than a USB 3 one.
So guys -- using an SSD even externally via USB2 connection is still WELL worth while for storing your VM on-- this VM even with the test SAP on it is actually USEABLE even from a modest laptop -- although I have 8 GB RAM in the laptop and have allocated 4GB for the VM --SAP is quite a large resource hog. !!
Price I paid today for new of 840 SAMSUNG 250 GB SSD is 142 EUR at Media Markt -- not the cheapest store in Brussels --that's however still cheaper than what I paid for the slightly older 830 120 GB Samsung SSD about a year ago in the same store !!.
I'm 1000% converted to SSD's not only for OS'es but also for running VM's.
Get an SSD if you have any spare cash -- ABSOLUTELY WORTH THE DOSH.
Now going to put an SSD into the laptop's internal HDD slot.
Cheers
jimbo
this is NOT a post over relative merits of W7 / W8 but all I want to say here is that using a spare 840 Samsung 250 GB SSD (SPARE !!! -- actually I've just had a decent tax refund so I thought I'd get another decent SSD !!! ) I copied a W7 VM with the minisap system on it to the SSD.
I plugged the SSD into a USB 3 port on a laptop via the USB2 (yes USB2) ==> sata interface adapter that came with the drive (and actually it was on a USB3 HUB shared with two other USB3 passport external drives) and fired up the VM.
Response time was FASTER (after VM boot and starting the SAP development system) than on the HOST system !!! and this was with a USB2 adapter rather than a USB 3 one.
So guys -- using an SSD even externally via USB2 connection is still WELL worth while for storing your VM on-- this VM even with the test SAP on it is actually USEABLE even from a modest laptop -- although I have 8 GB RAM in the laptop and have allocated 4GB for the VM --SAP is quite a large resource hog. !!
Price I paid today for new of 840 SAMSUNG 250 GB SSD is 142 EUR at Media Markt -- not the cheapest store in Brussels --that's however still cheaper than what I paid for the slightly older 830 120 GB Samsung SSD about a year ago in the same store !!.
I'm 1000% converted to SSD's not only for OS'es but also for running VM's.
Get an SSD if you have any spare cash -- ABSOLUTELY WORTH THE DOSH.
Now going to put an SSD into the laptop's internal HDD slot.
Cheers
jimbo
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