Developer oriented hardware benchmarks?

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Published on 2010-02-20T17:02:27Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 21:03 UTC
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Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places, but every hardware benchmark I've found, for nearly any component, is oriented towards gamers and/or workstations (video editing etc). Is there anyone doing benchmarks that are relevant to software developers?

For example, take SSDs. I don't care how fast Crysis loads off an SSD -- that is completely worthless information. What I want to know is, which drive yields the quickest build times? What about Intellisense and refactoring operations? What RAID configuration has the biggest benefit? I could probably come up with more examples, but you get the point.

Long story short, where are the benchmarks that tell me which hardware will be most effective in helping me be a productive software developer?

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