1TB SSD worth it? which model if so?

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I have two SSD's, a 128GB Intel one, and a 256GB Crucial. I have my O/S on the Crucial, and my Intel is a secondary drive.

Neither drive is big enough to store my Steam folder, and my Internet is not fast enough to be able to download games on a whim.

Is it worth getting a 1TB SSD for storing Steam etc onto? has anyone else done this?
 
For games while you may notice improvement in load times but once the games loaded the drives are hardly touched.What id wonder though is what games youve got in your steam folder, ive loaded nearly a dozen games on my 256 and im not halfway through it yet, have you considered purging some stuff you dont play often?
 
Minstadave said:
Putting steam onto an SSD seems unnecessary to me. I use an SSD for OS ad a couple of games and the rest on 3tb barracuda.
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stuie said:
For games while you may notice improvement in load times but once the games loaded the drives are hardly touched.What id wonder though is what games youve got in your steam folder, ive loaded nearly a dozen games on my 256 and im not halfway through it yet, have you considered purging some stuff you dont play often?
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Some games can be huge, for example Wolfenstein was massive (30-40GB I think). It seems to be the way things are getting with games getting bigger.

I've had to remove some stuff, or move to my NAS as it is, but I would prefer not to so wondering whether a bigger storage SSD for this makes sense or not.

Anonymous_0172 said:
I currently have a 256GB Samsung 840 Pro as my Steam drive, but with only ~ 40GB left and game installations getting quite large, I'll soon be upgrading to a 1TB 840 Evo
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Yeah was looking at the same here, but there is a thread here with people saying that EVO performance seems to suffer from degradation, put me off them a little to be honest!
 
SSDs don't give a huge performance boost to games though, the initial loading will be a bit quicker but a decent 7200rpm drive will be in a similar territory as it's all continuous reads. I don't think you get value for money with putting a big steam folder on an SSD.
 
I will soon have 1tb of mx100 across 2 drives

For photos and steam

Currently deciding where to put OS
 
@ the op if it were me and your motherboard supports it,i would put my os onto the 256gb ssd and use the 128gb ssd to cache a large 2 or 3 tb mechanical hdd

best of both worlds that way and cheaper
 
got a 1tb 840 evo as a steam drive reinstalling from and making backups is quicker some games load a little quicker but no ingame performance increase also have a 512gb mx100 in another pc as steam drive. i cannot notice any difference between the two.
 
Some games might be touching stored memory more than you might think. In the Everquest Landmark beta I was caching tons of gigs of data from the world which would most likely not fit on your ram and be referenced a lot.
 
randal said:
SSD gets me in game in BF4 much quicker, time saved that I spend waiting for everyone else to load.


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Capture the objectives quicker, win the game! SSD = Gamechanger!


Also, nobody likes waiting for slow-loaders in LoL.


I'm running a 500GB Samsung Pro SSD, it's just about enough tbh, I've got all the games that I play on it and also record gameplay to it. Once I start getting less than 25gb space free then I'll be getting a 1TB SSD!
 
I was thinking about this too, but then realised I spend more time reading about games, buying them, installing them, watching Youtube videos of them and arguing in forums than actually playing them :eek:

I don't know which is worse, having 300+ PC games spread across multiple drives or the fact I'm not playing 98% of them. That they're on fast SSD makes no difference when not being accessed LOL.

I think I'll do what wazza suggested, use 128GiB leftover drive as cache for a big spinny-rotatey one where I can hide all my unused games and unwatched films & TV shows LOL :D At least then if I do manage to start a game, it'll b fast enough that I don't get distracted by something else while I'm waiting for it to load, then get fed up and decide to do something else (hopefully more useful)! ;)
 
Eulogy said:
I have two SSD's, a 128GB Intel one, and a 256GB Crucial. I have my O/S on the Crucial, and my Intel is a secondary drive.

Neither drive is big enough to store my Steam folder, and my Internet is not fast enough to be able to download games on a whim.

Is it worth getting a 1TB SSD for storing Steam etc onto? has anyone else done this?
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I have a 256GB Crucial M4 it has my OS on it and a few other things but I use my older SATA HDD's to store all my other crap on. I believe some games will see an improvement running from an SSD but im not sure what that means apart from quicker load times ??
 
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