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Originally Posted by glatt
Back to a new machine, how big does a SSD need to be to get the speed performance?
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How much time is spent waiting for a disk drive? Verses how much time is spent processing data already read/loaded? Your answer is clearer by watching how programs run using Task Manager (or Process Explorer) to see where the bottlenecks are. To understand the answer can be unique to what programs are doing. Even the flashing disk drive light provides a better idea.
SSD means reading the program/data from the disk is faster. And then the system takes the same time to still process and display that information.
How much faster is a machine when the DRAM memory is doubled? Another indication of what (of so many) bottleneck exists. Waiting for the disk drive to load a program is often only a tiny part of the waiting time. Those other bottlenecks are not solved by an SSD.