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SSD for application only?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 20261297 views
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What would be the impact on application startup speed in a system where the SSD only contains application data and the OS is located on a hard drive? Would I see difference versus the same setup, but where the OS is on the same SSD? Is the OS files accessed when an application starts?

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Many applications use windows APIs, they'd see a small effect. Certain programs would see huge benefits (see: anything that loads a lot of data from your hard drive), and some would see almost nothing (17kb self-contained exe will see huge benefits …

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