Visual Studio 2010 with SSD Performance

Question

I have a Core i5 laptop with 4 GB of RAM, and I'm using the Windows 7 32-bit operating system.

I would like to improve the performance of my laptop, but, unfortunately, I can not upgrade Win 7 to 64 bits.

My question is: if I changed the HDD to an SSD (Sata III, read and write speeds exceed 500 MB / s), will these changes improve the performance of Visual Studio 2010?

Does anyone have any experience?

I read an article about this, and some people say that it will not be a big improvement, I have to change the processor speed, but some say that Visual Studio compilation is twice as fast on an SSD than on a hard drive.

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Thank you for your responses!

I have a company laptop, so I can’t update the RAM, because the official operating system is Win 7 32 bit and cannot use more than 4 GB. (My laptop has 4 GB of RAM).

Answer 1

Tomshardware (a hardware news site) published an article a few weeks ago where they suggested that everyone who considered the update should upgrade to an SSD.

Compilation is a CPU limitation, but I can imagine that reading the source code and writing assembly files will be much faster with SSDs.

John Skeet also posted a blog about his new SSD laptop.

Answer 2

Patrick Smakkia, an NDepend developer, wrote a blog post about using SSDs for development. His SSD laptop was a bit faster than a desktop PC with a regular hard drive.

Answer 3

The speed with which Visual Studio compiles quickly cannot be much faster, because you just update the data transfer speed and still compile the amount depending on the speed of your processor.

The only thing that will be much faster is likely to be speed when you start a visual studio on your own.

Better upgrade your processor and RAM, it’s not so much ... And since your CPU is not so bad, you can only update ram