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SSD OS drive Q

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ioni

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If I got an SSD for my OS drive, would it improve performance on other HDDs? Since any underlying OS operations that needed to be done to interface with the other HDDs in the system would be much faster.

Everyone talks about how awesome their SSD boot drive is and how much faster their system runs. But I'm wondering if this is ony the case for the part of the system that is on the SSD.
 
Of course any time you request data from a rotational drive you'll have to wait on it to spin, seek, read, etc. The OS itself will do readahead, caching, etc to try and help with that but it's still there and just running the OS from an SSD won't help that at all.
 
If having an SSD OS drive doesn't really help at all with the speed of accessing the other HDDs in the system, I can't see a reason to get one then. Thanks!
 
ioni said:
If having an SSD OS drive doesn't really help at all with the speed of accessing the other HDDs in the system, I can't see a reason to get one then. Thanks!
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windows bootup and shutdown is OS drive dependant.

So your bootup and shutdowns would be faster.

Also general productive software installed on the SSD would be faster, like faster loading browsers, documents opening instantly.
 
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