Hello,
I love Dropbox, so much so that anything that I know I want to keep forever, I put on Dropbox. I use it for pretty much everything... mostly comprised of small documents, pictures, my music (I buy and curate my own local library, I'm of that generation lol) - all currently totalling ~500GB spread over ~170,000 files.
The drive my Dropbox folder is stored on is just a basic 5400 Western Digital 2TB hard drive that I've had for years. For a spinning drive, it has served its purpose until the last few months, I've noticed its starting to be a bit of a choke point for my PC.
I edit files out of the Dropbox folder in a couple of applications at the same time. I've noticed things being a little sluggish lately, especially when Dropbox is doing anything...and even loading directory contents can take like 10 seconds for a folder that has 10 files in it.
Would moving the Dropbox folder onto a SATA SSD with a DRAM cache yield much overall performance improvement? Would it drastically increase the speed in which indexing happens? Both when rebooting (I shut my PC down every night when finished with it) and just general syncing while in use?
On paper it seems like it's an obvious answer...Yes it will be faster, but computers are just outright weird sometimes and I've found the most obvious answer turns out to be untrue. So before I spend £200 on an SSD I thought I'd get some feedback?
Much appreciated.
Edit: Now that I think about it, my motherboard has a second M.2 that I could put an nVME drive into. nVME and SATA SSD's are so similarly priced that going that route might yield even better results, assuming there are any?
