Assuming a PC has plenty of RAM (as many cheap laptops with HDDs do), will an SSD make web browsing significantly faster? Is an SSD a worthwhile investment for someone who's in google docs and gmail all day?
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Your browser will start faster. After that, unless you have an extremely fast low-latency internet connection (as in ≥400 MBit/s, ≤10 ms), you won’t get any speed boost, because your disk will always be able to keep up with the internet.
There could, however, be other programs eating up all the IOPS your disk can provide. In that case, you may get slowdowns. This scenario of course depends on what you’re doing while browsing. Listening to music? No problem. Backing up your hard disk? That’s gonna hurt. Even with an SSD.
So no, it won’t help under most circumstances.
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No matter how much RAM you have in your PC, there will be always files cached to local disk while you surf (unless you specifically configured your browser not to). Those cached files will be used when you revisit the previously visited web sites.
With an SSD, you will get benefits of speed and low latency access of cached files, so an SSD will definitely make your browsing experience faster! But these days, regular HDDs are pretty much gives enough speed to access those cached files and you will hardly notice that speed up.
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