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This is what happens when your devs get the machines they want and not the machines their customers have.

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Although, to be real, if you're running an Oculus, you have something similar to the machine the devs want.

That said, SSD boot drive isn't super uncommon.

Unless you explicitly got a drive to put games on because you got sick of installing and uninstalling them all the time because you thought it wasn't 1995 any more.

If you have the specs for a Oculus Rift, and your C:\ drive ISN'T an SSD, you did something wrong when you specced out your PC.

All of my games go on a secondary drive. Of course, I also didn't spend $600 on a early version VR headset, so I guess I've got time to wait for the update. :)

Over here, devs want two Samsung 950 Pro on M.2, raid-0, for a 1TB boot/OS drive. The rest of it is also going to be SSD space, but C: will only be 1TB (or maybe less if they dual boot to Linux).

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Where is "here" and what would a dev do with that sort of disk IO other than perhaps video editing?

I don't know where is "here" but I have no problem using disk IO - my C++ builds are IO bound.

I don't believe it. Unless you are running some 1999's 20gig hard drives and a i7-6700k with high speed ddr4 rams and use a ccache and gold linker, that is very very unlikely.

I have ~1TB SSD and ~3TB HDD (so I suppose both been made quite recently) and a single 12 thread Intel CPU using clang-based toolchain under various build systems. In your opinion, this system is never IO limited on any possible C++ project?

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