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Re: Would moving my Dropbox folder to an SSD have much improved performance over a HDD (both internal)?
Just be clear: the sluggish-ness only happens when Dropbox is doing anything. It's fine when it's not being trashed.
I also tried de-fragging recently, it said the drive was only 1% fragmented. I was kinda hoping it was that, but it seems Windows handles fragmentation in the background pretty well now on its own.
I really don't think this is a case of a failing drive.
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- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi dolphinuser426, thanks for messaging the Community.
In general, there isn't any recommendation to use a specific hard drive type to store the Dropbox folder.
Does the same behavior occur when the Dropbox desktop application has been exited completely?
This will help me to assist further! - Hi,
Yes when I close the Dropbox app, things speed up.
Again, I will reiterate that it seems to be noticeable when it's sync new files while I'm also using programs that store some or all of their data on the same hard drive. I guess I should have also said that I store Windows users documents folder on the same drive (not in the Dropbox folder).
To me it feels like I'm forcing the hard drive to thrash itself to keep up, but I don't recall it ever being this bad until recent weeks/months.
My brain is telling me this is an issue with the HDD being overworked and the seek time and latency of a mechanical drive not being able to keep up.
The rest of my system is more than adequate. R7 3700x, 32gb RAM, 2080ti, nVME Windows drive, 600/40mbit internet.
Thanks! - JayIt depends on your requirements, however, we've not heard of any differences between SSD and HDD when syncing.
