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I would put programs, like your compiler, on the SSD also. They will load much faster and compiling from an SSD is much quicker.
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Thank you for the suggestion something to consider that I wasn't thinking about while putting the specs together.
Have a great day.
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kmoorevs wrote: One more thing...do you really need 32GB of RAM?
As soon as you bring in virtualization, yes.
If you need a couple of test environments, and want/need to leave them running all the time, 32GB is a decent point for a realistic mixture of Windows OS versions. 8GB won't cut it, and with 16GB, you'll constantly be shutting down/restarting individual VMs, looking for spare RAM. With 32GB, it pretty much becomes "fire and forget" - launch them, and always leave them running, so they're always available.
I personally also need to have instances of MS's SCOM and SCCM, and those are memory hogs, so I'm currently at 64GB and wished my motherboard could take more. But until I had a need for them - I went from 8 to 16 then 32 before I found that to be the sweet spot.
Of course this is all my opinion, YMMV etc etc.
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VM's do better if you run them on separate SSD's and give them plenty of memory. My W10 dev machines tend to run over 100 GB. I have 3 hard drives dedicated to them, 2 SSD's and one RAID 0 pair.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Thank you for taking the time to answer and I'll look into your suggestions as I answered another post may not be the right idea my first ssd I was just going to leave the operating system on it then extra ssd's for Data etc but sounds like I might need to rethink and research my plan some more.
Thank you again.
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Get the largest SSD you can afford, 250gb will not hold your c drive.
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I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Thanks my idea and sounds like I need to research more was the small ssd was just to run the operating system only and then use extra ssd's as data/files etc.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: 250gb will not hold your c drive.
Really?
I have separate, full dev environments running inside 128GB VHDs, and have never had a need to make anything larger. But perhaps that's the key...? Not lump multiple instances of things together?
I don't have anything running on the host other than necessary drivers. Since I never reboot it, for the longest time, my host OS was on an 80GB spinner - but with the VMs on SSDs.
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There is a vast difference between the c drive contents and a development environment, all those other applications you may need/want usually get installed on the c: not just your dev tools.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
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I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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All I know is that all the VMs I use for work are each running inside a single VHD, and I always stick with the default of 128GB.
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I agree there is a difference and I did in my design update the c: drive to a bigger ssd as to accommodate the OS and potential any other files that will get copied to the c drive if I were to install programs on other drives and such.
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Alright here are my advices:
- If you are going to work on a specific device for hours almost every day for years, don't try to be cheap. Splurge a couple of grands for something that will last 4-5 years. 50 bucks per month times 60 months is 3000.
- Don't trust AMD. Get Intel.
- Get full media candy including an upper level sound and graphic card. You never know what are you going to be working on.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Thank you for the advice just at the moment don't have a couple of grand to get everything in one shot.
The sound would be lost on me as hard of hearing/deaf so that isn't really a requirement for me but would know it's working well if my neighbors come over to tell me turn it down 
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Urban Cricket wrote: Don't trust AMD. Get Intel.
I've been using AMD since they released the AM286 in the late 80's. Today, most of my machines are still powered by AMD. Out of 14 machines in my house, only three are Intel.
AMD is just as fast (or faster) for less money. Functionally, there is no difference. If it wasn't for AMD, the Intel fan-bois would still be gobsmacked by their single-core 486's.
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I have used both intel and amd just as John mentioned I'm going with AMD as I can get a good processor and the savings is allowing me to go for the extra memory and hard drives.
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A word of warning: if you build a custom PC you run the risk of having components that do not work together well.
Where I work they thought they had built the "Ultimate build server" with very expensive components, it turned out to be slow as molasses, probably due to the RAID controller not playing well together with the other components ...
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A valid point which is why I was seeking help to be sure I was on the right path. I'm taking a little longer to review the specs on everything to make sure they should all play nicely as you said if something is not compatible then I will be a sad camper.
Have a great day.
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The SSD and memory are the things you'd want to focus on.
My "desktop" is a small 65watt box without moving parts; no fan, no sounds, by using an i3 laptop-cpu. Before you call that "too slow", remember that compiling is not just a CPU-function, there's a lot of disk-activity involved.
When I bought it, lots of people would say 16Gb is excessive - and that's true, most people do not have a VM running with 4Gb dedicated to it.
Spent about less than half of what you are proposing 
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Thanks and you said what I was thinking memory and ssd would be the big ones to make sure I get the most I can afford today.
Have a great day
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: My "desktop" is a small 65watt box without moving parts; no fan, no sounds, by using an i3 laptop-cpu.
In my case, the heavy lifting (VM host) is done by a beefy tower system sitting in another room, and I use a puny Intel NUC on my desk (quiet, takes even less power than your 65W laptop, generates no heat) to remote into individual VMs. Although any old laptop would also do, in the real "dumb terminal" sense.
The only thing that was important to me, for the system sitting on my desk, is screen real-estate - the NUC can drive a 4K monitor, and I also have two additional 1080p monitors running off of USB3-to-VGA adapters.
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I'd opt for a gaming laptop, fully loaded with SSD + external HDD, & 32gig memory - if possible.
Even an used Dell mobile workstation with SSD & 32 gig memory would definitely fit the bill with great performance.
I'm completely done with Desktops. Fiddling with SMPS ,UPS ,Motherboard& HDD problems.
It's been a great journey with pure-notebook set up (with dock-stations)
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Will look around to see if I can find something that will work for me. Thanks for the suggestion.
Have a great day.
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After all this talk about hardware, I went ahead and ordered a 500gb PCIx nVME SSD and an adapter (that holds two nVME drives) for my desktop so I can put my VMs on it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Always happens when people talking about hardware that others go I want to buy some too  . If you don't mind which brand do you select for the PCI nvME SSD as I'm reading up on those and tempted to get one.
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Samsung - there were others that were less expensive, but most of those ship from China and take MONTHS to arrive.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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