Get a SSD, they are affordable now. I would recommend that the largest one you can afford. If cost is an issue get a smaller one, but at least a 128GB. The are now under $100 USD, I've seen them as low as $60 at this capacity. 256GB are currently hovering around $100. But if you can find a deal on 512GB one, I recommend that. The SDD is easily the best upgrade for the money. It drastically increases the load times of both the operating system and applications. I recommend this now, because boot drive is never a plug and play experience. So, get one of these first. Once you go SSD, you'll never go back to a HDD for booting. As I've said, this is by far the best thing you can do. Boot ups from an SSD are twice as fast. I used to hate Windows updates because it would require a reboot. Now they are actually tolerable. If you can't afford this because of budget, I recommend you wait a pay cycle and save the extra money for this upgrade.
I run mine like this, apps & OS on the SDD and data storge on a HDD slave drive. You can reuse your current HDD for this. When you get the cash, adding a third HDD is simple. Or if that isn't an option, copying you data drive is simple, just a drag and drop. Again this is not the case for your OS unless you some experience with cloning software to transfer your OS. But, I recommend a fresh install on a new rig.
I recommend the 128, because anything smaller will either limit installing frequently used apps or the size page file. The page file is important because it will, in effect increase the access rate to overspill from your RAM. This is akin to vastly increasing your RAM, because you rather than reading and writing to a mechanical device, it's completely electronic. There are no delays relative to physical disks that have to "spin up" before they reach peak performance.
Good luck with this.
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Get a SSD, they are affordable now. I would recommend that the largest one you can afford.
If cost is an issue get a smaller one, but at least a 128GB. The are now under $100 USD, I've seen them as low as $60 at this capacity. 256GB are currently hovering around $100. But if you can find a deal on 512GB one, I recommend that. The SDD is easily the best upgrade for the money. It drastically increases the load times of both the operating system and applications. I recommend this now, because boot drive is never a plug and play experience. So, get one of these first. Once you go SSD, you'll never go back to a HDD for booting. As I've said, this is by far the best thing you can do. Boot ups from an SSD are twice as fast. I used to hate Windows updates because it would require a reboot. Now they are actually tolerable. If you can't afford this because of budget, I recommend you wait a pay cycle and save the extra money for this upgrade.
I run mine like this, apps & OS on the SDD and data storge on a HDD slave drive. You can reuse your current HDD for this. When you get the cash, adding a third HDD is simple. Or if that isn't an option, copying you data drive is simple, just a drag and drop. Again this is not the case for your OS unless you some experience with cloning software to transfer your OS. But, I recommend a fresh install on a new rig.
I recommend the 128, because anything smaller will either limit installing frequently used apps or the size page file. The page file is important because it will, in effect increase the access rate to overspill from your RAM. This is akin to vastly increasing your RAM, because you rather than reading and writing to a mechanical device, it's completely electronic. There are no delays relative to physical disks that have to "spin up" before they reach peak performance.
Good luck with this.