SSD Disks and SharePoint 2010

I have recently set up a new virtualized SharePoint development machine with a SSD Disk (Model Kingston 128GB SSDNow V-Series V+ SATA2 2.5).  I measured the time it takes to load a start page of a site collection after iisreset. The virtualization software was virtual box. The tested site collection was Enterprise Wiki. Here is the configuration of the systems:
Host system

• Windows 7 64bit
• 8GB RAM

Virtualized Server

• Windows 2008 Server 64bit R2
• SharePoint 2010
• 4GB RAM

Here are the results

System	Time (seconds)
with SSD disk	8
with standard disk	32

Pretty impressive

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