SSD needed?

Hi guys, I'm thinking about adding an SSD to my computer as I've read that it helps alot regarding to processing information quicker, could you please give me a little help in the process of choosing, as I'm thinking of integrating it myself, but I'm not really sure what I'm suposed to be looking for.

 

Also, If I free some space from the C disk, will that affect the data process time by any chance?

 

From the screenshot you included, Partition 0 is dangerously low on space (14%) and that WILL slow things down considerably. Try to offload a lot of data from Partition 0 to get it to the point of Partition 1 (52% free space). You'll notice a marked improvement. Also, using a defrag/optimization program after clearing up some space will help.

 

I agree with Mdonah's post.

Just to clear up the function of the hard drive- The hard drive stores the information such as windows, your software programs, movies, games ect. The CPU and processes the information hence it's called the 'central processing unit' as does the Video card or GPU 'graphics processing unit'.
When your actually using a program your usually limited by the speed of the cpu,memory and video card, when your waiting for that program to load your limited by the speed of the hard drive.

In general an SSD will make your whole computer feel faster, windows will start faster, your programs will load quicker, you can browse the files faster. If you wish your games to run smoother or your work programs to finish faster which come under the definition of 'processing information' and 'process time' an SSD might not be the best choice.

Do you know why your hard drive is split into a 98GB and 55GB partitions?

 

Thank you for both of your answers

First I'll do a full clean up on my disk later, then I'll run defrag as you recommended, sincerely I don't even know what's occupating this kinda of space on my computer, there's not much that I need on my computer so it will be easy to reach 50% on disk C.
Answering your question, I have no ideia why the disks are separated, but I allways tought that was normal?
One more question, one of the reasons I'm doing this clean up is because I use a program that does real time statistics and calculations (HM2) and it was in a forum that they told me an SSD would have a huge impact, if I completely clean the :/D partition, and use it solely for that purpose will it better the performance, or as they are apart of the same disk it won't make difference?

Thanks!

 

Yeah using an SSD as a dedicated device for a single application can offer excellent performance for that application but it doesn't offer enough performance to make it worth not using the rest of the drive, SSD's are not as capacity sensitive as regular hard drives.

No it's not normal to split a drive like that unless your dual booting operating systems or it's a factory computer with a recovery partition but it would never take up 50GB which is a full third of your hard drive, usually only 5-15GB.

You should check what's on that partition and remove it if possible.

I'm not familiar with that program but whether an SSD will have a large impact depends on how large the set of statistics is your working on and how often the program accesses the hard drive to manipulate the data, if the program needs to access lot's of smaller amounts of data often from a large bulk of data then an SSD is the ideal choice, if the data set is small and can be loaded into memory and manipulated by the cpu then the only real benefit to a magnetic hard drive would be the time it takes the program to load when started.

Keep an eye on your hard drive light while using the program but it really is a question for the software designers or someone who has experience with the program.

A few simple tests- Hit control alt delete simultaneously and open task manager , run your program. If your consistently running at 100% cpu while your program is running then it could use a more powerful cpu. If all your memory is used up by the program then you could use more memory.