SSD actual performance improvement on software

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Hey everyone, just wondering if someone could share their experience on actual performance improvement on software (i.e. photoshop, 3ds max, Autocad), other than faster booting which is the only evidence i could find!
It is actually worth it? Will I notice an impact on the time I spend in my projects? thank you!!
 
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pretty much the whole selling point of SSDs is improved speed, so less loading time for programs and your OS, but its not like having an SSD will have a huge impact on things like rendering atleast not what i have seen, but i would definetly recommend that you get one. You can get 250GB ones pretty cheap now adays which is more then enough space so long as you don't use it for storage
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pretty much the whole selling point of SSDs is improved speed, so less loading time for programs and your OS, but its not like having an SSD will have a huge impact on things like rendering atleast not what i have seen, but i would definetly recommend that you get one. You can get 250GB ones pretty cheap now adays which is more then enough space so long as you don't use it for storage
 
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I know rendering and viewports rely pretty much on CPU and GPU respectively. Im running on an i7-4770K and my GPU is a r9 270x, now waiting for a second hand FirePro v4900 that i got to see how it performs! Imagine a hypothetical scenario where you have the very best CPU and GPU, does an SSD have any part on performance on software installed on them???.

Cause I am not about to spend more than 0,50 c per gig only for storage. It doesnt really work for me since I edit pictures and video and have 3ds max, maya, autocad and several other projects stored that amounts to some 6 Tb!
 
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Although the V4900 is a workstation card, it is quite a lot less powerful than a R9 270X(7870GHz). And as far as SSD helping with performance of your software there will be little to no performance increase. The faster loading of OS, Software, Files, etc is what an SSD is made for.
 
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well from what ive seen there really isn't any major gain, id say at most it would only be a 1% or 2% the tangiable results would only come in actually loading programs like 3ds max and their files takes a lot less on a SSD, theres nothing stopping you having an SSD for your OS and main programs and then just having a few HDD also to act as the bulk storage, this is what most people will do
 
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So what people do is get an SSD forma their OS AMD main software, and also keep their current projects there, and once they are done move them over to an hdd for bulk sto???
 
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That's mostly what I do, yes.

SSD has the OS and all applications. I have a second SSD for working files. HDD for larger things and games, and other stuff that does not need to live on the SSD.

SSD:
Less heat
Less noise
Faster
Proving to be more reliable.
 
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Yes pretty much, personally i recommend around 250GB sized SSDs there getting pretty cheap and ive found that ive never really run low on space. i mainly have OS(win7), a bunch of Adobe software some 3d rendering programs and a bunch of other programs and ill usually keep the files that im currently working on there before moving to my HDDs when im finished with them(or u can just run current project files off the HDD wouldnt matter mostly i mainly do it as an organization thing not a performance thing)
 
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