Has an SSD become essential in Windows due to poor performing services?

Scougar · 14 Aug 2020 at 03:13

I'm not going to sugar coat it. Performance in Windows 10 with an HDD is awful. It takes forever to start up, it is unresponsive trash. Plug in an SSD as your main drive, all the issues disappear.

So... is an SSD just band-aiding Windows 10?

Scougar · 22 Aug 2020 at 00:37

Rroff said:
Yeah even on a basic SSD Windows 7 boots a clear 3x faster than a fast HDD.

I'm not talking about boot speed and getting into windows. I'm talking about PC being usable once in. My daughters Ryzen 1600 with 16GB's of ram (my old machine) is atrocious with an HDD. It isn't even the same machine at that point. It's a horrible experience. Slap in a cloned SSD, and it's fast, and actually operates like a computer and not having to wait for menu's to load up for basic things like explorer.

Scougar · 23 Aug 2020 at 06:08

darael said:
I think the only use for spinning rust is for storage and archival, using an SSD for the operating system and software. It's what has worked best for me for some time now.

Nowadays, for sure. I have 2 SSD's in my PC at present, and just bought my daughter one as well for her PC. I couldn't in good conscience ever recommend an HDD as primary drive to anyone ever again.

Scougar · 23 Aug 2020 at 06:10

I am surprised by the comments not blaming Windows. Especially as you never see Linux run like a dog like this. Obviously they are based on different architectures but I'm sure you get the point.

Scougar · 24 Aug 2020 at 16:18

Quartz said:
Linux is based on Unix where systems are typically on 24/7. That other Unix-based consumer OS, MacOS, has also switched to SSDs.

I'm well aware... I use Unix systems every day for my job.

Scougar · 6 Sep 2020 at 18:21

My wifes laptop with 6gb was basically unuseable with an hdd with w10. SSD changed everything. (Heck, I can run w10 on an old 2core 3gb mini pc just great with an ssd. Hdd.... Say goodbye lol).