Upgraded iMac to an SSD - No improvement

[dyt1983]

edit: To remove personally identifying information not relevant to the thread.

 

[smirking]

Let's face it, your CPU is too old and isn't worth peanuts these days. Rendering is limited by CPU (and GPU too). Your GPU is also pretty ancient.

Maybe it's a bit old for Final Cut Pro, but MS Word shouldn't be taking 10 to 15 seconds to load up. One of my machines is a 2008 MBP that I recently installed a 512GB 840EV into and it's running smooth and fast.

 

[2984839]

That's completely normal; SSDs only help with disk related activity, not CPU or GPU intensive tasks.

If it's abnormally slow, you may have a runaway process hogging your CPU.

 

[Brian Y]

It doesn't matter here, because either sata or pcie ssd always affects the same factors: boot time and app start time.
BTW: Do you really feel the difference between 300 mb/s and 700 mb/s when you launch Safari or iTunes (or something different)?

No, but when copying files you certainly will.

 

[cltd]

No, but when copying files you certainly will.

Yes, but how much time do You spent on copying? I do it very rarely, and even then I copy to/from external storage.

 

[matreya]

Hey All
Last night I removed my optical drive and fitted a Samsung 840 EVO 500GB SSD and I am very disappointed with it.
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Any thoughts anyone on how to improve speed?

For a start I'd put the SSD into the HDD bay - I suspect the optical bay connection has negotiateed to only SATAI. That would explain the lack of a substantial speed boost...

Check system information from "About this Mac.."->System Report and look under SATA/SATA Express heading to check the negotiated link speed for the SSD