my purpose it to use to to compile the android o/s including linux kernel.
On a quad core mac mini with normal 7500 2.5″ striped drives, it’s take 1.5 hrs to compile Jellybean per platform (galaxy nexus, nexus 7, nexus s) from start to finish.
On a dual core laptop with SSD stripe raid, it’s takes about 45 minutes per target from start to finish. But that doesn’t involve copying the targets from SSD to a normal HD afterwards, since the capacity of the SSD’s I have is so low, I can’t fit more than 1 target on both SDDs.
It kinda wasn’t an issue before because there was only 2 targets I use to care about (nexus s and galaxy nexus). Now there’s at least 4, and probably more in the future.
So for me it’s a total loss of productivity (why do you think sometimes I post so much on piggington?)
So I’m thinking if I pop in two SSD’s into the mac mini running stripe raid, it should speed things up…significantly. I’m already maximum out my memory at 16gb..Not sure if it really makes any difference, but I have the entire stripped linux host system running in a ram disk
