SSD's and 1,000's of fonts installed

[colonelciller]

Hi, i'm moving from OPerating system on HDD to ---> OS + programs on SSDs.

One thing i encounter daily is application lag in word, excel, photoshop, coreldraw, etc... and i think it is due to the > 1000 fonts i have installed. i know it goes against common advice to have that many fonts installed... but will SSDs mitigate that "lag"?

assume a system with 16-32 gigs ram.
high end processor
os + programs on an SSD

i'm curious if the "to many installed fonts" issue is a thing of the past with the advent of SSDs

 

[Emulex]

Look up latency. you are going from 5-15ms to 0.01-0.1ms, multiply that times the thousands of files.

High end processors typically have 3 or 4 channel ram (3dpc) - 72gb-96gb .

With 512gb crucial M4's at $299, no reason to not pick up 2 or 4 😉

 

[dawza]

The most fonts I've run on my system was ~750 (CS Suite). I was SSD-based already, and didn't notice any difference pre/post font installation. I was loving the responsiveness of the system before, and loved it no less after.

I have no comparison -/+ SSD, but it's probably safe to extrapolate here.

 

[colonelciller]

This is good news indeed 🙂
I'm gonna be in PC heaven after this upgrade.

...and I learned what latency means which I'm actually quite happy about!

Cheers guys

 

[coffeejunkee]

SSD is definitely worth it but you might want to look into some kind of font manager too, like Extensis Suitcase.