The processor is an older one, so I'm afraid you need a better PC. And Studio 2021 requires a stronger CPU.

The processor is an older one, so I'm afraid you need a better PC. And Studio 2021 requires a stronger CPU.

Jerzy Czopik

I am going to have to disagree with you here. The bottleneck is not the CPU (i7-6700 is 6 years old now but still pretty high end).
As you know Trados Studio is a 32-bit process, so no matter how much RAM you have it is limited to around 3GB at max.
Also, you should know that Cores do not improve IO performance. Studio uses temporary files in the background (just look at your TEMP folder when running Studio).
This is not an issue usually, but with large files it takes time to write to disk.

OK, but the bottle neck will be the whole system. The RAM with CPU and HDD speed. These have improved dramatically in the last years. The M2 SSD gives much more performance in my current systems. So I think a 6 years old system is not performant enough for Studio with large TMs and files. A possible solution could be using project TMs instead of the full TM, because the TM size would be much lower then.

Thanks for the explanation! The memory limitation clearly describes why it is hitting the disk so much. Something about the Windows 10 update caused much less memory to be available to Trados, apparently, or something. The amount of disk writing when I'm browsing in Trados to confirm segments is ridiculous. It is so slow, I'm considering opening all trados files with MemoQ, but I do like to do what agencies ask.   Do you know if 2021 will offer a 64 bit version to get around the memory limitation?