get a smaller one for your OS + common apps and a used nvidia gpu from a newer mac.<p>an ssd is a completely different paradigm.  it&#x27;s night and day, even on an old sata bus.<p>this shoudn&#x27;t even be a question.  hdd computers are completely unuseable to me now.  i sat down at one the other day and i thought it had crashed and almost rebooted it, but it was just chugging the disk.