Below we have use Passmark PerformanceTest to test the speed of a normal hard disk drive and an SSD.

It is quite obvious that the SSD is way faster in performance.

The only thing you have to be careful of is that SSDs have smaller capacities and can fill up much faster, so we always recommend that you have an additional hard drive in your system for extra storage.

Windows 7 and 8 both create a swap file (pagefile.sys). Unfortunately the more RAM you have in your system the larger this file becomes which can fill up your drive.

The above is a Windows 8 installation with only 8 Gig of RAM

The above is the same Windows 8 installation but this time with 16 Gig of RAM

The above is the same Windows 8 installation but this time with 32 Gig of RAM

To help resolve this issue you can always move the pagefile.sys to another drive