In the event that the resources allocated to Krita are not sufficient and Krita begins to swap out, it is not uncommon for the operating system to swap out as well. The idea is to eliminate competing accesses. If the storage space on the SSD/HDD is scarce (not uncommon on mobile hardware), Krita and the OS will “compete” for it. If you now have two channels on which this happens you save time because it is parallel and the “competition” is omitted, with SSD’s it is only faster than with HDD’s.
And you could also take a bigger SSD to use the non swap space for other things if you like, this usually doesn’t bother since when Krita swaps out you are painting and not storing any files, exception can be saving a Krita file (Krita saves and needs swap space for the process, but this is a rare special case) but if you don’t touch the space reserved for Krita while it is needed it is ok. But even there, if two processes access a disk at the same time, they can compete with each other if the bandwidth is too large for both accesses at the same time.
So, it can bring something, the emphasis is on CAN! Small SSD’s, between 60 GB and 80 GB, are available for little money (Krita can allocate a maximum of 64 GB to a swap file, so I thought of using such a tiny SSD only for Krita), but do you really want to invest money in such an old computer, you should ask yourself first?
Are you editing such large images that your notebook has to swap out constantly, then it will probably help, but is it worth it? If you only own this PC, and it will stay that way in the long run, you use Krita a lot, it’s more worth considering. If you plan to buy a regular PC soon, then save the money for it, it will bring you more joy.
In the other topic, I think I mentioned that there’s little point in tweaking anymore - it’s cosmetics, save up for “the big one” and then get hardware that meets your PC requirements well. If it’s mainly Krita, then a strong multicore processor and plenty of memory counts, a standard graphics card will do, as you learned in your CPU/GPU topic. If you want to play the latest games in high resolutions, then spend a lot of money on the graphics card, and so on.
Michelist
Supplementary: I don’t know how you are with money and how urgent you want better hardware and if there is a reasonable offer of second hand hardware in your home country. Here in Germany there is a good second-hand market for leasing returns from the commercial sector, companies often replace their hardware in a rhythm of 2 years or less.
If I ever come into money again, I would buy a good used professional graphics workstation, preferably from HP again (or this time a new one depending on how much money I would get).
I get a lot of computing power and memory for all my interests, and for comparatively very little money. Something with the processing power would have cost at least triple new when I acquired it, even with cheap consumer hardware. Unfortunately, for me, this will remain a dream.
