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Is it a big performance gain to run a VM from a second drive?
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Dell offers a laptop with either a 500GB drive or two 320GB drives (both 7200rpm and no options for SSD). I will be running VMs for development and will also have several TrueCrypt mounts. I figure two drives are better for a): faster disk access, and b): data is on separate drive from OS. Is that …
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Scott Hansellman made a blog post with great advices about VM performance. Jeff Atwood too, with some benchmarks (it's from 2006, but still useful). And all of them agree about a second hard drive for your VMs. And I agree with them. When I use VM w…
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