Re: Re: Information gathering exercise

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Gordon Milne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Well, according to the info I have had so far the median system
> described by my peers is 4 cores, 4GB RAM and 160GB HD.
>
> I am thinking about taking us down the DVCS route for low-cost,
> simpler branching than we have in Subversion, so that was what was
> feeding my 500GB HD thoughts.

The standard at my office is quad-core 4 - 8GB RAM 1TB HDD. Terabyte
drives are piddling cheap (under $150 Canadian). The RAM a bit less
so. My team all has 8GB RAM because we're all running VMs with our
development and IT-controlled Windows/Outlook systems on the VMs.

For about $1,000 US or Canadian, you should be able to get a good, but
not great, computer. For about $1,500, you can get an excellent
computer. Shared build servers will cost you more, but we bought some
quad-core DL360s last year for about $3000 each, each with 10GB RAM
(the machine comes with 2, we upgraded it with 8 more) and standard
drives.

There's no excuse for not providing developers with a newer computer
if the hardware is over three years old.

-austin
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