On 17/10/2016 07:30, Rod Speed wrote:


"Bod" wrote in message
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On 16/10/2016 02:18, John Rumm wrote:
On 15/10/2016 09:54, Bod wrote:
On 15/10/2016 09:44, alan_m wrote:
On 15/10/2016 01:23, David Paste wrote:
am I barking up the
wrong tree to assume an SSD will improve the snappiness of the user
interface?)


When I replaced a traditional hard disk in my 5 year old laptop with a
SSD I noticed a faster start up but for day to day use no overall
difference in speed.




Hmm! that hasn't been my experience. I've changed several laptops to
SSDs and *everything* is much snappier.

Yup same here... In fact I find the improvement in responsiveness and
application start times is more impressive than the reduced boot time.

Indeed. Now that SSD prices have become more affordable, installing an
SSD for your system drive is probably the most cost effective method of
speeding up any computer.

I'm not convinced when you only reboot every few months, never close
any app, have enough physical ram on a 64bit system so it never swaps
and have a decent high performance cpu like an i5 etc.

I *know* it makes a big difference.
My desktop pooter has an i7 CPU and only 8GB ram, but I don't use a swap
file. When I installed an SSD it made a dramatic speed improvement
to everything.
My gaming laptop has the latest i7 with 8GB DDR4 ram and an M.2 SSD
which is even faster than standard SSDs. Again, I don't use a swap file.

Unless you're doing intensive video editing etc, 8GB of ram is plenty.
I never run out of ram headroom to need a swap file.