Aspire a514-54 501z What should i do? Upgrade ram or ssd?

marcosgirardi

Hi! I have an Aspire a514-54 501z which I upgraded its ram from 4gb to 12gb. Due to the fact that I am a graphic design student and I use multiple adobe softwares at the same time, with large image files, my laptop needs more ram. Whenever I'm working in photoshop with a large file, my ram usage is in 95%, and my 256 ssd starts getting full because of virtual ram. I also have a 128 sdd which I also added to the list of virtual rams disks on photoshop.

So, what do you think I should do? I was thinking about buying 16gb ram to have 20gb of total ram. But do you think that wil solve my problem? Or is it better to buy a bigger ssd, to have more space for virtual ram?

My specs are:

i5 113567 2.40ghz

12gb ram (4 soldered + 8)

256 ssd + 128 ssd upgraded

intel xe graphics

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sri369

Upgrade RAM to 4+16. Upgrading RAM is always a better option since writing and reading from virtual memory is a multi step operation compared to reading and writing to RAM.

Upgrade SSD to 512 or 256.

Move all documents folders outside of windows drive (and SSD) to the second SSD you just added.