How much do you need?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

I do work with VMs for some years and in my experience you need something between 80 to 120 GB to a decent one, that's one you use for work...VMs for test can get on with 20 to 60 GB, depending on the applications you need for the test environment...

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Sander Rossel

We have separate test and build servers. Luckily I don't need a VM for that as well. So you have one or two VM's on your machine at a time and everything else on an external disk? Switching is a pain. Especially last week when I got a new VM for a project I was already working on (in an old VM). I couldn't have the old and new environment on my laptop at the same time.

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Lost User

I have no idea how much space the company uses on their virtualized environment, but there's never enough space. Personally, 1 Gb is all I need; but I doubt that you can run a modern Visual Studio in such an environment :)

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Brisingr Aerowing

I have a 237 GB SSD for my system drive and a 931 GB HDD that spins up in less than a second for data. All my data is on the regular drive. Even if it has spun down, I notice no delay in accessing anything on it (other than program startup delays, although the SSD does help, some programs just seem to sit there for no reason other than to waste time. I'm looking at you, Visual Studio). No virtual machines, though. I also have a 4TB USB 3.0 external drive that I'm not using right now. I am planning on putting Portable VirtualBox[^] on it with some Linux VMs, though. I got that drive on sale for $50. Seriously. I thought it was a typo, but it wasn't! Normal Price: $398.99. Yeah.

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PIEBALDconsult

If it doesn't fit in 640K it ain't worth doing.

Marc Clifton

The days of 32K (that's "kay") being a ton of memory are long gone. Storage? You mean cassette tapes??? ;) Marc

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

I have 11 VMs at this point - running 2 to 5 concurrently... I'm using seamless mode (I have VirtualBox), so no switching at all... I have a 8 core, 64GB, 320GB SSD, 2TB HDD machine and all on the drivers...The machines are sitting on the SSD, but the data is on the HDD on shared folders, so all can access...External drives are for backup only...

Now, that's interesting...I had never problem to run two VMs at the same time...Maybe you share resources in the wrong way...

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

That's really interesting...We all got to used for big machines with - theoretically - endless resources...A half a year back I got into a project, using Arduino as the 'brain'...My young companion for the project, never had the experience to see, how much can be put into 32K...He was shocked...

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Sander Rossel

So what's your editor then, Notepad?

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Sander Rossel

Nice! :omg:

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Sander Rossel

I could probably do with 32K if Visual Studio would fit on that :laugh:

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Brisingr Aerowing

There was a major overstock of them and they needed to be sold. They were sold out by the end of the day.

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Rage

Still, I cannot understand why windows need 16Gb, or a printer driver 4Gb, ... I think memory is too cheap, and everybody goes the easy way of not caring about storage space anymore. Long see optimization... I had the secret hope that the requirement of "everything" being "downloadable from our website" would refrain from proposing gb downloads with 4 figures , but it does not seem to be the case. So I had to wait 45min for playing a game loaded on tape 25 years ago, now I have to wait 45min to download the 220Gb of the game I want to play. Where is the improvement? :rolleyes:

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Lost User

MonoDevelop :)

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9082365

You sure? The unofficial record holder is only around 80GB fully installed with expansion packs.

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Kirk 10389821

Wow, I have 2x1TB drives in my LAPTOP. Thinking about leveraging the #3 (tiny one) or upgrading the 1TB to 2TB. Honestly, you can buy 1TB SSD for cheap on amazon <$300 I would upgrade your existing by cloning it, and swapping a 1TB in. It cost you more to COMPLAIN about it :-) Now, the 2TB are pricey at near $900.00 so I understand not going there.

Sander Rossel

I'm not buying anything. This is a WORK laptop. If anyone is buying anything it's my boss! :laugh:

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Kirk 10389821

Sander, Lookup the prices on Amazon. Give them to your boss, ask for the upgrade. If you have the skillset to do the upgrade, offer to do the upgrade on your own time, or after hours. I would be surprised if they did not go for it. I remember EONS ago, I brought in my own SECOND monitor to work. My boss sat down with me, and after 15 minutes, he asked how hard it was to do that for others, himself included! Within a week, even the receptionist (who had a softphone, and needed to email/fax from the pc) had dual monitors. Don't be afraid to ask, but include the WHY. I am sure your boss does not want you feeling stressed or wasting your time WAITING for a response. Or shuffling around large files. It's a relatively small price. Now, if you work in a BIG company, you might be hosed. But I would still try. It can't hurt!

Sander Rossel

Be surprised :D We all swap large files around, even my manager. Ah well, as I understood we're getting new laptops pretty soon anyway.

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bwallan

We have 8TB of SSD's installed and feel a storage crunch every week or so when processing a chunk of 4K video, which does love storage... Whenever a crunch occurs we roll SSD storage to hard drive backup. It is, however, nice 1TB SSD's have finally dropped below $200. I'm waiting for the 16TB SSD to arrive at a realistic price, but we'll probably be processing 8K video by then and still be out of space! :( bwa