I was also forced to buy an SSD to make my life easier, but lets be honest, SSDs are still quite expensive on price per GB on first world countries, let alone the rest of the globe.

Same regarding RAM, I know of companies that a standard developer machine is 8 GB, while everyone else gets 4 GB.

Getting something like 16 GB is unthinkable unless that is a business related change request.

So basically making the life miserable for those developers.