More RAM helps, but the SATA SSD is still the bottleneck.

Yes, upgrading to 16GB will reduce swap writes, but don’t expect your slow SSD to suddenly feel fast.

When you run out of RAM, Windows starts using your SSD as overflow memory—that’s swapping. Swapping is slow because your SATA SSD tops out around 500 MB/s (best case) and has much higher latency than your RAM. More RAM means less swapping, which means fewer reads and writes to the SSD during heavy multitasking. So if you frequently hit the 8GB ceiling—like with dozens of browser tabs plus Slack plus a video call—