Should I swap to a solid state disk?
A recent upgrade to Win 10 64 bit and 8gb of Ram has now exposed the performance bottleneck being the hard drive. I have turned off cortina and other high usage apps but the sata drive is always showing high demand as the cpu and ram are at very comfortable use levels. Will a SSD be a good move and are they reliable compared to the IDE and SATA drives?
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My X1 Drive is a Samsung M.2 SSD and works great.
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Thank you for the sound advice!
I am fairly sure that my PC is clean as I just clean installed it and when I turn of my AV, backup software, dropbox and a few other things my HDD use does drop as expected.
Think I will give an SSD a try as I can keep my currently drive safe and I have a second data backup so have nothing to lose.
I will be sure to confirm my bios (never even considered that) will support and I have at least SATA II before doing so.
I am fairly sure that my PC is clean as I just clean installed it and when I turn of my AV, backup software, dropbox and a few other things my HDD use does drop as expected.
Think I will give an SSD a try as I can keep my currently drive safe and I have a second data backup so have nothing to lose.
I will be sure to confirm my bios (never even considered that) will support and I have at least SATA II before doing so.
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Once again thank you!
You are very welcome and I was happy to help.
>> then your disk should not be occupied