SSD in corporate desktops?

[paul8811]

Would be interested in thoughts on the use in a SSD in a desktop? It seems until a 64bit OS is common place in large corporate we are at bottle neck, i.e we currently run Quad Xeon i7 with 4gb ram on XP32bit for some traders & find that PC's still grind to a halt. Excel (2007) seems to be the main culprit with some files >50mb pulling data in from Reuters & bloombergs etc.

I am wondering if a SSD would show a significant improvement to performance? Or does anyone in a large corporate run a 64bit OS as standard for users?

 

[paul8811]

Ta guys...i aware that the problem is mainly caused by Excel. But having never seen an SSD in action I would be interested to know if it did help with performance.

What crazy is our previous build with office 2002 on it run all these spreadsheets much quicker.

 

[paul8811]

Out of interest why are your traders using Excel and not products like R, S+, SAS, Stata, SPSS, MATLAB for heavy numerical work. Are they a bit retarded? I wouldn't for a second think Excel would be even remotely compariable performance wise to R for doing almost anything like supporting trading.

Yes they are retards & descend from Joey Deacon