Impact of SSD drive on performance of Fusion relative to other applications

[antoineps]

Will a SSD drive increase the performance of Fusion relative to the increase seen in performance in other applications? Is Fusion an application with more disk activity than the typical application, e.g. Pages, Word, Excel, etc? Does a faster CPU/graphics card have greater impact on performance.

[vTreyAnderson]

I've found with limited testing on my new SSD that the VM performs much better. I would say your hard drive is your biggest bottleneck if you have a modern cpu and decnet amount of (RAM 2-4GB). Your applications inside the VM should be noticeably faster if you run it on SSD. Check out this tweet I did on Fusion booting an XP machine on an MBP(late 2008) with SSD

http://twitter.com/trey_anderson/status/11940274890

The other thing i love is resuming a paused VM is very fast! Let me know if you have any other questions or anything you'd like tested.

[antoineps]

Are you running a new MBP? Apple SSD or 3rd party SSD? Thanks for the demo!

[vTreyAnderson]

I have a Macbook Pro (Late 2008 - Model 3,1) with 4GB of RAM and a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo processor. The SSD is a 40GB Intel X25-V. Makes the computer feel brand new and probably will add a year or two of usability to it.