Kristian Loc: Monrovia, CA

Desktop: Dell XPS / 32 gigs RAM / Intel i&-6700 CPU @ 3.4 GHz.
I have all f the applications and the OS on the SSD, all of the documents on the conventional drive. PS 2020 runs like a champ.

Laptop: don't recall all the specs but it's an HP Spectre. SSD only. It's a bit slower but not enough to bug me (I don't work that fast anyway.) :-)

pego101

Nope but u could put a ssd in the laptop.

Markag

Certainly have. When I picked up the Z7 I knew my older Dell would have issues working with 85mb NEF files so I built a new computer.
Everything was fine until Adobe upgraded to the Creative Cloud managed offerings. Oddly, PS would initialize in 10 seconds but pausing on Preferences and again on Brushes of all things. Discovered that Adobe constantly writes into the %temp% folder on the PC and the files eventually become very large.
As mentioned earlier, 10 seconds to initialize after a reboot of the computer. Next day, no reboot and it jumped up to 17 seconds and 7 or 8 seconds added each day. Of course, the Adobe people came in and made changes and at various times during the flurry of Adobe updates, Adobe had me go back to previous versions, had me Uninstall Creative Cloud. Reinstalled everything = 10 seconds plus 7 or 8 each day and the functionality of the software slowing as well. Many emails exchanged explaining they will up the support level I discovered that my old Dell Pc which was getting auto updates and was up to near 3 minutes to get PS initialized when not restarted, suddenly pepped up.
I noticed that my latest PS was two or three revisions behind so I thought I'd upgrade and see what happens. Down to 4 seconds to initialize had me tell Adobe I was happy and they could drop the long-opened support call.
But since/during all this in an effort to get the most performance had me:
Stop Windows Indexing.
Told Windows Defender not to look at NEF or Jpg files.
Moved the %temp% folder to another SSD drive.
Moved all browser cash and temp files to another SSD.
Moved Camera raw and Adobe scratch disks to another SSD.
Attempted to get everything off the C drive as possible.
You can watch: Find and open your %temp% folder on your PC. (I created a desktop shortcut).
Once the temp folder is open, initialize Photoshop and watch the files build into the %temp% folder.
Open a photo and perform some functions and the files will either grow in the temp folder or more files will be added. And yes, some files will disappear when you exit PS.
My shutdown Photoshop routine is now = purge all. Delete ACR cache. Clear current file list.
Delete the Adobe %temp% file. Only Adobe files reside there on my PC.
Even then, some of the Adobe Log files won't delete and will grow over time. You can then.
Open the temp folder, select all. Get into current task, alphabetize, stop everything Adobe or Creative Cloud. quickly get back over to the temp folder and delete all.
Also of interest and perhaps a questionable practice.
Come in first thing and even before you touch anything adobe, look in the %temp% folder and you'll see the files have been updated to the current date. I haven't examined the contents of any of the files that updated to compare for changes but this whole thing seems to be on the intrusive side and IMO, not good.