I installed 18.04 at a fan-less mini-pc (1,6 Ghz i3, 8GB Ram, quad-core) right after it was released. That time the whole system was quite comfortably to operate.

After a few months I replaced the original SSD to a bigger one (PNY 960GB CS900) I used Acronis to backup and restore to the new disk then I used GParted to modify partition size.

I'm running an IO intensive application that constantly appends to a file (currently 295GB)

SSD currently available 410GB used 490GB

The whole system became constantly a bit slower. After a few months after changing the SSD I noticed that it considerably slowed down when I started the above mentioned application. Now The system is even slow and sluggish after a fresh reboot when no application is running.

Because I'm using SSD I never considered large files being an issue.

I regularly update the node using apt upgrade

Is there anything I can do except a fresh install?

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