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I have an Alienware M11x R2 computer. A bit old but still kikin'. I run Windows 10 on it and I have VMWare Player installed to run Ubuntu 14.04 LTE on. It works but I used to have dual boot and Ubuntu was def. much faster running natively.
My question is: Will replacing my HDD with a SSD likely increase the performance of my virtual machine? Someone suggested that. But wouldn't I need a separate drive so that guest OS was stored on a different drive than the host OS, in order to see upgrade? I've read that all over.
My problem is this computer only has USB 2.0 so I can't really have a fast external drive anyway so stuck with single drive I think.
Suggestions?
2"I've read that all over." Then you should be able to give us at least one link to someone saying that so we might have some idea what you're talking about. I can't think of any reason that would be so. An SSD is way faster than an HDD for the same use scenario. – David Schwartz – 2015-12-06T06:59:57.213