I have the unity 2019.4.9f1 version and use Visual studio 2019 community. Basically every time I want to open a project it could take anywhere from 3 minutes to 10 minutes to open. If opening a .cs file from Unity it would take 3 minutes to open it in Visual Studi and I guess thats normal. The task manager says its taking up 15% of my memory and my laptop is 8GB Ram, and I installed Unity on my hard disk instead of the SSD. What can I do to speed it up? And does it being on the hard disk make it slower than if it was on the SSD?
What can I do to speed it up?
From my experience, a long loading time is first caused by not having enough memory available, and second, having the software and/or the project on the hard drive. Based on what you said, it seems that you are in the second case. If you want Unity and/or Visual Studio to load faster, put them both on your SSD, and also depending on the size of your project move it to your SSD too.
And does it being on the hard disk make it slower than if it was on the SSD?
Yes, of course, hard drives typically run 10x slower than SSDs. Usually, it is recommended to put recurrent software on the SSD to speed loading times and use the HDD for storage.