Anonymous at Sun, 4 Jul 2021 01:08:51 UTC No. 836875

It's not a huge difference, things get loaded once into RAM and that's it. I have Blender installed on a SSD and it starts in 3 seconds. If you need to use disk for cache, like doing a big smoke or fluid sim then an SSD becomes important.

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Jul 2021 01:42:36 UTC No. 836884

>>836874
An SSD effects the general performance of your computer if you put your OS on the SSD. It affects the starting time of all programs but also loading times whenever you pull a massive amount of data or when you copy stuff. Given the fact that a SSD is really cheap you really should think about it. Lifetime is precious, waiting for a program to open or your computer to boot up adds up over time.
That being said it doesn't really effect the computation performance, unless data is involved. It won't make games run faster or an 3D program calculate something faster. Only when data is read or written does it have an impact - but on an older PC this is really a bottleneck.

Anonymous at Sun, 4 Jul 2021 03:43:35 UTC No. 836906

>>836874
I bought an M2 for Substance Painter back before Jewdobe, and it worked pretty well for loading up the shelf and stuff really snappy like.
As for opening shit like Blender, I've not really seen any difference. In all honesty it probably seems longer. This isn't really a fault of the SSD, more likely Blender itself.
I had meant to put my texture library and stuff on the SSD, but then just opted not to since the improvements I had thought would happen after testing, didn't.

But yeah, it doesn't make much of a difference, honestly. If you're rendering with a GPU, having a GPU with more VRAM would make more of a noticeable improvement in your workflow than an SSD.
Still, SSDs are worth it for the simple fact that there's not any physical process going on inside them, for keeping your files "safe" it's pretty good. Though I tend to archive things like animation frames onto M.Disk Blu Rays.