Should I install Visual Studio on my SSD?
Visual Studio installs the core product and includes files that are specific to this version of Visual Studio. If your system drive is a solid-state drive (SSD), we recommend that you accept the default location on your system drive. This action won’t affect or delete files from previous installations.
Does SSD make installation faster?
Games that are installed on your SSD will load quicker than they will if they were installed on your HDD. And, so, there is an advantage to installing your games on your SSD instead of on your HDD. So, as long as you have enough storage space available, it definitely makes sense to install your games on an SSD.
Does SSD speed matter for programming?
Getting an SSD (Solid State Drive) should be near the top of your priorities. This will give you significant performance improvements over a standard hard drive. Every operation will be a lot faster with an SSD: including booting up the OS, compiling code, launching apps, and loading projects.
Should I code SSD or HDD?
Hard drive type matters! As such, we strongly recommend considering an upgrade to SSD if you are using a regular hard drive. While ideally Windows, Visual Studio, and your solution would all be contained on an SSD for the maximum impact, having Windows installed on SSD will have a huge impact on your solution load.
Is 1TB HDD enough for coding?
For a web or mobile app programmer, a 128GB storage drive suffices. For a video-game programmer, a 1TB storage drive or above is suitable. These estimations are based on the space that the operating system, developer tools, and projects take.
How do I move Vscode to another drive?
You can also migrate an existing installation to Portable mode:
- Download the VS Code ZIP distribution for your platform.
- Create the data or code-portable-data folder as above.
- Copy the user data directory Code to data and rename it to user-data : Windows \%APPDATA\%\Code.
- Copy the extensions directory to data :