Time is money, and my 5+ year old desktop is costing me a heap of it right now. The final straw has come when processing several terabytes of stealer logs which has taken forever. Meanwhile, Stefan has been flying through them with a massive NVMe drive on a fast motherboard.
So, in no particular order, here's what I need it to do:
- Read and write multi-terabyte files fast
- Run SQL Server locally for both development and querying of large data sets (the latter is especially memory intensive)
- Dev environment is largely Visual Studio, SSMS and other (less intensive) tools
- Run a gazillion simultaneous Chrome tabs 😛
And here's my current thinking: