OpenRA

Going through Combined Arms mission. I was playing on hard initially but got annoyed with the loading times since I kept on messing up during the first set of allies mission. Drop it to normal - now the game is too easy... I know in CnC remastered; easy - AI has 50% lower HP and does 50% less damage...

I know that the save data is just a replay file.

Is there any way to make this process faster
ie running openRA from a M.2 Drive over 2.5" SSD?

Or any other way to make the save file load faster.