This. The development department is usually a fixed cost and budgeted for while new purchases are not. SSD:s were actually quite expensive at the time, I think it cost about 10k USD or something.
Interesting.... I may be the edge case, but in my experience, the tendency is usually for the boss to be more comfortable spending money for a solution that will solve the money than burning developer time on a project that may or may not fix the problem and mare or may not be on time.
That works if you have a boss who is competent and if you don't work in big companies. That's exactly the kind of things which make small companies inherently more efficient, IMO.
