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Is it better to do Python development on an SSD, or on a mechanical disk?

28th December 2011

My answer to Is it better to do Python development on an SSD, or on a mechanical disk? on Quora

SSDs are faster than regular drives for every application—Python is no different. That said, unless the Python code you are developing does a huge amount of disk IO you probably won’t notice the difference.

Posted 28th December 2011 at 9:33 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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