SSD's RAID 0 on Precison Laptop
We are looking to replace some of our Dell Precision laptops that are used to run Autodesk Civil 3D. Would having SSD's in RAID 0 make it noticeably faster when opening and working on CAD files over the network? Not sure if the cost is worth the performance boost.
Thanks,
cja
Thanks,
cja
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If the server is fast and the network Gigabit, then there should be some improvement. Certainly starting Autodesk (which I assume to be local) will be much faster than from a hard drive.
If the question is relating to a network application then the bottleneck is the network speed as stated by dbrunton above which will always be slower than local storage access.
Definitely no. SSD speeds are better than network speeds.
I also agree that with the bottleneck being the network it will not be faster. Perhaps putting the SSD on the server can improve things..
I also would NEVER use RAID 0 in production.. any drive hiccups and you lose everything.
I also would NEVER use RAID 0 in production.. any drive hiccups and you lose everything.
Doubtful that it would make any difference. The most probably bottleneck is the LAN, make sure it is running Gigabit, all the way from the laptop to the file server. Poor cabling will sometimes drop to 100Mb.
Don't even bother with wireless if you need serious speed.
Don't even bother with wireless if you need serious speed.
can you copy a project to the local disk, and run that, to compare over the network?
that should give you a fair idea
that should give you a fair idea
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Disk access will be faster but CPU will be the same.
Run Resource Monitor (Windows Admin Tools) and track Autodesk CPU and Disk for 15 minutes or so to help you determine how much operation disk impact there might be.
All that said, any laptop today should have a fast SSD drive as its main drive: 500 GB or more.