Is there a significant increase in speed with ssd instead of hdd?

Question

Hard disks

Who switched to ssd, share your experience, is it worth it?)
I want to transfer Windows to it and the main programs. For files, use hdd anyway, because ssds are still expensive in large volumes. Because of the different types of disks, it will not be possible to deploy Windows and programs, will you have to reinstall? Is 32 GB Enough? Is it true that programs run in seconds (Corel, Photoshop, Word)?

Answer 1

Passes worth 100%. The main thing is to buy not something shitty with 120-150MB per record. It should also be remembered that SATA2 may not be enough (300MB limit) and SATA3 is needed.
32GB is not enough and even 64GB is only for Windows and a couple of small programs. The smaller the SSD, the slower the speed. Streams are not parallelized. In addition, the less free space, the more the SSD slows down. That is, even at 128GB it is necessary / desirable to always keep 1/3 of the free space.
At 64GB, you will constantly run out of space.
Windows is easily transferred regardless of the difference in disk volumes:
Paragon Hard Disk Manager
MiniTool Partition Wizard
and others.
I recommend buying an SSD from Micron..
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Answer 2

The growth is significant.
Without an SSD, you cannot work comfortably in a number of programs: for example, with JetBrains products (it lags and slows down a lot) or Photoshop (it crashes into an endless swap when processing large images).
IMHO a minimum of 128, but I recommend at least 200.
Project files and swap files should also be on the SSD. Consider 5GB per file opened in Photoshop.

Answer 3

Of course it's worth it. I have been using an SSD for five years now and have no idea how to work with a system that is on the HDD.
The increase in speed and responsiveness of the system is very noticeable.
However, you should not think that absolutely everything will start working faster for you, for many programs disk performance is not critical, and they work the same on both SSD and HDD.
The minimum disk size is 128 GB for a modern system, it makes no sense to buy less.
It's easy to transfer - make a disk image, and upload it to the SSD. Done in 15-20 minutes.

Answer 4

It's worth it.
In the office, managers have weak computers on Celeron 1037, 4G memory, SSD 60G Silicon Power, files live on the server. Enough for comfortable work in office tasks + Internet. A similar computer with HDD - a complete brake. 32G is definitely not enough.
SSD designers have 120G + HDD for their projects.
So if you take for yourself and for a short term - 120 - 240 is needed.
Samsung SSD comes with a program to move from HDD to SSD without reinstallation.
Or there are a bunch of cloning programs, Akronis and others.

Answer 5

I did not feel any increase in speed at all, the responsiveness became a hundred times greater in programs using the disk.

Answer 6

Nikolay, if you switch, then buy a hard drive of at least 200 GB for the system, at least 120 GB. Don't even think about smaller disks, modern operating systems will eat up all the space very quickly.
As for the performance boost.
It took me 1.5 hours to build the system image on hdd, it takes 5-10 minutes to ssd.
After the transition, look for articles on optimizing your system to run on ssd (especially relevant for Win7). If you transfer Mac OS to ssd, and the disk is not certified by Apple, then you will need to do separate manipulations to set up TRIM.
In any case, start the transition with a request to Google.

Answer 7

Nikolai,
There will be a significant increase in that case (opening programs in seconds) only if you combine an SSD with new hardware. For example, the same Photoshop is demanding on the processor, RAM and video.
Pushing an SSD, for example, into a prehistoric "calculator" is the same as putting a Bugatti engine on a Zaporozhets. Yes, it will be cool, but the question is - what the hell :)