SSD For Fusion 360?

[pdspinelli]

I have a seagate nytro 1351 (6GB/s SATA III) SSD which has read and write speeds of 560MB/s and 535MB/s, respectively. I was wondering if SSD speeds have a major impact on the performance of modeling, rendering, or simulating, and if they do, is what I have sufficient for those operations? If not, what am I looking for in terms of an SSD? 

[ryan.bales · Accepted solution]

I would say at this point in time, an SSD what we should all be using. I try not to generalize here but they are affordable and perform better.

• Will Fusion run better on an SSD? Yes, as nearly everything runs better on an SSD.
• But will it have a major impact on modeling performance? To be honest i 'doubt' it. But since you already have it, that is what i'd use. Major impact factors are few, mostly the processor, then likely RAM/GPU. 
• Does that SSD meet recommended speeds? Nearly all harddrives manufactured currently are suitable. 

What it comes down to is that if I were building a new PC to run Fusion today I wouldn't even consider a standard hard drive as an option. This is mainly because Fusion installs locally in user directories on the C:/ Drive with the operating system and we really need to consider system wide performance over that of an individual application when building a PC. 

Performance comes down to removing bottlenecks and an SSD is one of the cheapest potential bottlenecks to remove. And its cheaper still because you have one already.