Do SSD's help with editing speed?

Do SSD's help with editing speed?

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my speed is so slow during editing, My HDD is at 100% whenever I'm editing, will buying one of these help with the speeds or should i just spend the money elsewhere.
 
A mechanical hard drive is frequently the bottleneck in older computers.

I have a 2016 HP ZBook Studio G3 that has a M.2 SSD in it and write speeds are much quicker than my older iMac.

Before advising you further, let everyone know what type of setup you have. i.e. what configuration in your PC or which laptop you own. This will help determine whether it is better to upgrade the hard drive or just change your whole setup.
 
My set up isn't bad, I gave a gtx980ti, a newiish generation i5 processor, decent cooling. But I sotre all of my videos on a 7200 RPM HDD. If anyone would like more specific stuff just let me know.
 
If you have a newish i5, I suspect the hard drive is the bottleneck. The 7200RPM HDD in my iMac is my bottleneck too/ I've read a lot of people saying that replacing the HDD with an SSD, or replacing the DVD drive with an SSD, gives you the biggest performance boost. I've been reluctant to do it so far as I am not sure about spending £100 or £200 on a computer that is seven years old. It would make more sense to sell the iMac and put funds towards a brand new set up.

By the sounds of it, an SSD is exactly what you need as the rest of your setup sounds good (assuming your i5 is a quad core and not a dual core).
 
you really need a quadcore i7 or a Xeon processor. I'm building a Custom PC soon with 4GB of Graphic Video Memory. 16GB of Ram that I can expand to 64GB of Ram in the future.

SSD's will help if you have your media on it. However they aren't cheap. a 1TB SSD will cost you about 300+ depending on what brand you buy. a 1TB HDD will be much less than that. But to put it into perspective you would have to buy 4 HDD's to equal the price of one SSD if it's 1TB. So I'd say a 1TB SSD is worth it.

EDIT: Forgot to mention I only have media files on my SSD that I'm currently Editing. After I'm done editing I move the media files over to a 3TB HDD. Then if I have to tweak anything I can open it up from the HDD. Since I don't need the HDD to be that fast when I need to tweek something. (Such as changing a font or fade for future export for a client or TV Broadcast)

I haven't stored media files for editing on an HDD for a year. Been glad I haven't. SUCH SUCH faster
 
I recently bought a laptop with an SSD drive and yeah, they are fast (and quiet), but more importantly they are STABLE compared to mechanical drives with moving parts. If you value your data, I'd really recommend it. I liked it so much that I changed my hard drive on my desktop to an SSD too. They aren't cheap but they are worth it. I would never go back to a normal drive.
 
SSDs aren't that expensive now. You can pick up a smaller sizes ssd fairly cheaply for your OS and save files in an external hard drive if you're wanting a cheap entry into SSD computing.

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