Photoshop is slow. I'm thinking about upgrading the RAM -- I can go to 16, but I was also wondering about a SSD.
1. Would an SSD make a big difference on the speed in working with photoshop?
2. Does size matter? Should I get a bigger drive so I can fit more on it, including my photos, or would you just get something large enough for the programs and the system and store the files on a regular drive without seeing much slow down?
3. The computer is a year or so old -- maybe a bit older -- can it really take advantage of an SSD?
Right-click the task bar, go to "Start Task Manager"
click on the "Performance" tab, and then on the "Resource Monitor" tab.
fool around with this until you understand it, then go to work while monitoring the resource utilization. That should pretty quickly answer your questions.
As for the SSD, yes your computer can use it, and yes it will help, but you'll need to enable ACHI if you want to see the real performance gain, and that's a little more involved than simply slapping in the drive.
As for the SSD, yes your computer can use it, and yes it will help, but you'll need to enable ACHI if you want to see the real performance gain, and that's a little more involved than simply slapping in the drive.
The most economical price point in $/GB right now is probably 256GB. That's enough for apps and OS, but not a lot of data. And that's OK if your data archive is elsewhere, but your active data (OS and application swap files) are on the SSD.
