Will connecting an SSD in Photoshop as a scratch disk speed up work with huge files and how much?

Question

Solid State Drives

Hello.
Will connecting an SSD in Photoshop as a scratch disk speed up work with huge files and how much.
Share your experience with someone who has a similar situation.
I often work on large-format layouts for printing, for example, the file weight is 1-2 GB, 25000 pixels on the larger side.
Every once in a while it slows down a lot. Windows when switching to applications are not drawn for a long time, everything freezes.
At first I thought to just do a complete upgrade of the entire computer based on a motherboard with support for more than 32 GB.
But at first I decided that if I try a good fast SSD with a PCIE interface with good speeds, adapt it for temporary photoshop files, can it help?
WIN 7x64, PS 2018, 16GB, AMD Phenom II X6, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760

Answer 1

Accelerates, noticeably, but memory in the first place.
Designers' posters slowed down until it was 16.
32 is already better, 64 is just fine, but there is room to grow.
But there you can already put an SSD.
And if 16 and SSD - it will be better, but I don’t think that at times.
SSD in any case should be prepared - leave over provisioning.
The optimal size of the spare area - if just from the ceiling 50% of the volume of the disk.
Although it is possible to calculate the required size more accurately - using windows counters.

Answer 2

Keep in mind that this SSD cannot be a system SSD (drive C), otherwise you will have to reconfigure disk access rights so that you can write to the root without elevating rights, and this is already a security risk.
What will work faster is a fact. I don’t know how to measure it.))) I also have a problem that a special caching program comes with the SSD to reduce disk wear and further increase speed. And it turns out that Photoshop uploads temporary files from the RAM to the SSD, which actually remain in the RAM cache. The same nonsense as placing a swap file on a ramdisk, in general. So I would take measurements if I knew how to do it - it's very interesting.

Answer 3

in theory, they should
even take a larger hdd just for this, and even more so, ssd should work even more
upd: you just need to do a partition so that it’s not on the same disk where the system is
https://helpx.adobe.com/en/photoshop/ kb/optimize-p...
they also write that ssd has a limited number of times to write to the disk, and if it is already covered with a copper basin, then the data cannot be recovered