Originally Posted By: MoultiPass
On other SSD too. C:\ is NVMe.

Ah yes, NVMe could make a difference there.


Originally Posted By: Gordon Scott
In the early days of Unix and I presume most such OSs, we used to put the swap partition in the middle of the disc to keep physical seek times as short as we could. I still tend to do that, though most hard drives have caches that should smooth out quite a lot of that. Of course we shift a huge amount more data now!

When I added a drive to this machine for my trials with BiaB under Wine on Linux and also under Win10, I put all of BiaB on a new drive, partly to make sharing between OSs easier and partly to keep BiaB and other disc access separate.

I have yet to try moving SavedTracks to a different drive.

With spinning hard drives, having a separate drive for things like audio data or recording made a huge difference. It's much less so these days with SSD's due to basically instant access time, but can still be noticeable (as MoultiPass found).


Originally Posted By: Gordon Scott
Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
... using the program feels ‘snappier’ if it’s on an SSD.

I changed the drive on my old (dual celeron) notepad PC from hard to SSD. The most obvious change was that from 30-odd seconds to boot up, to about 5s. For some things, SSDs can make a huge difference.

Absolutely - I added one into my 2015 iMac (which was no easy feat) and it brought boot time down to ~20 seconds from a previously staggering minute and a half. It didn't help that the iMac previously had a very slow 2.5" drive...

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