Now, SSDs are quite a bit faster than HDDs, and cheaper than RAM. You can read all about SSDs, and more in this article. There are in fact, two different types of SSDs, SATA SSDs and NvME SSDs, and they have two different interfaces. The benefit of it not needing physically moving parts to access data is that all the data is accessible all the time, and can be read and written much quicker. It stores data on silicon microchips much like your RAM but unlike RAM, it does not lose information when power to it is turned off (aka, non-volatile memory). AdvertisementsĮnter, the Solid State Drive (SSD).
Now, remember that any data on a HDD is many orders of magnitude slower in terms of access speeds and data throughput when compared to RAM, and so if the data that photoshop needs to process is not found in RAM, but on your HDD, accessing it will be much slower. Further Reading I Don’t Have Infinite RAM, So How Can I speed Up Image Editing?įirst, remove any performance bottlenecks.Setting Up The Camera RAW Cache To Use Your SSD.Set Up Lightroom Cache & Catalogue files Correctly To Use An SSD Set The Photoshop Scratch Disk To Use An SSD I Don’t Have Infinite RAM, So How Can I speed Up Image Editing?.
