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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1617143" data-attributes="member: 56379">We need to be clear on one thing first.  The hard drive, fusion drive, or SSD only effects performance when files are initially loaded.  An SSD will only make the loading of a file faster (and the loading of applications faster).  Once the applications are open…and once the file to be worked on is open…then the computers performance is almost entirely due to the:- processing power of the cpu- processing power of the gpu- amount of ram installed The "glacial" problem can be from:- a hard drive that is too full- a failing hard drive- too many apps open at the same time- the computer needs some maintenance done on it- the computer hasn't been restarted in a while (which sort of "resets"/clears things)- or the computer simply isn't powerful enough to handle the task that it is being asked to do * Nickp.s.Technically speaking…if there is not enough ram…some info may be "swapped" back to the HD temporally.  But this is really a super technical thing…and really shouldn't have much of an effect on performance with a computer that has 16gig of ram installed…and a hard drive that is not too full.</blockquote>

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