Recommended Hardware configuration for VS

I was looking at how to improve the performance of my development PC and checked out the VS Virtual Machines on Azure. I noticed two main points,
1) they all seem to have a second drive that appears to be just for the swapfile/temporary files
2) they seem to use Windows Server 2012 as the OS
I also saw some recommendations for using SSD's for the main OS drive.
What are the recommended/optimal configurations? Are the advantages/disadvantages documented anywhere?
I can sort of see why (1) would help as my PC seems to be disk-bound but not sure whether (2) is significant or just to allow for SQL server development or something?
Also if I where to use an SSD is there an easy way to move all the appdata, temporary and other frequently written areas to a second conventional HDD?

Hello Terry,
SSD will increate performace when reading/writing files so you will benefit from this if you use it and do some IO operations. However I think Visual Studio performance do not just rely on this, the build process of Visual Studio is also related to other
of your hardware. It is hard to say how the performance will raise since it depends on so many things.
I will recommend you do this: If you don't need to read or write a project too offten, you can keep it in HDD. If you always use one project and want to increate the performance, please set this project in SSD.
For the appdata and temporary files, I cannot see them from VS settings, maybe you cannot modify them. But if you choose to install VS in SSD, I believe the performance will be better when read/write files.
Best regards,
Barry
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