All,
Solid-state drives (SSD) are becoming reasonably priced, commodity storage
options for PCs. I was wondering if anyone in the community has done
benchmarking on systems using these storage devices?
I ask because NONMEM appears to use a number of temporary files in the local
directory for a run. Certainly, the OUTPUT file is being continuously written
to, and some of the new stochastic methods need PRINT=1. When we've looked at
the impact of that directory being on local disk storage or network storage,
the local disk storage can execute much, much faster.
This led me to wonder if any advantage could be gained by increasing the access
speed of the local disk storage, which SSD offers over traditional magnetic
disk storage.
Regards,
Mike Dodds