> Im fairly certain everyone who says this has simply forgotten how slow mechanical hard drives were.
Absolutely, but I would go even further with this. I can't prove it, but I would bet a lot of money that Windows 10+ has made using a spinning disk even slower. I would guess optimizations around disk access were entirely different in the XP era compared to now, when it is assumed everyone has an SSD.
Anyway, I had an old laptop that ran like absolutely dog shit. I put an SSD into it and it magically became usable again.
Absolutely, but I would go even further with this. I can't prove it, but I would bet a lot of money that Windows 10+ has made using a spinning disk even slower. I would guess optimizations around disk access were entirely different in the XP era compared to now, when it is assumed everyone has an SSD.
Anyway, I had an old laptop that ran like absolutely dog shit. I put an SSD into it and it magically became usable again.