SD - much sound info. I didn't really expect the change to Mint 18 to show a significant speed improvement but it still niggled me that I didn't know for sure. So, as the thread title says, for info only.
When I scrap the machine, which may be soon, I will have two 250GB SSDs and a 250GB HDD going spare. Just for info again, I have two i7 desktop machines running Mint 18 and both are built on 159GB drives so I can upgrade both....... for free.
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