System Not faster with SSD

[alpinejohn]

@daldude

but then when I used the slightly extra space on the drive for a NTFS Data partition and recreated another Swap partition it stopped being faster

Hello daldude

Without having details of your disk situation it could be possible that you have "over-filled" you disk:

Low Disk Space Warning

Hello moocan The warning is almost certainly there for a good reason. Linux file systems and disk usage are worth understanding (at least a little). The number GB of disk space you have free is not important. What is important is the percentage (%) of the total disk space that is free. I presume you are using ext4 as your filesystem (please correct me if you are using another file system). In this case you need to know that: Under some circumstances, a filesystem’s performance can begin t…

How much free space do you now have on your ssd (Mate System Monitor > File Systems)?