Always the first to spawn on games... must be SSD

I was sceptical prior to going SSD but tbh there was no need to worry as it's easily the biggest single performance upgrade I've ever made. It really was a jaw dropping experience when I saw how smooth everything became from the very first moment I turned the PC on.

I never realised exactly how much of a bottleneck the mechanical drives were. I know now, and would never go back to a mechanical drive for an OS, I do have a couple as storage but thats all they'll ever be from now on.

I've had big CPU upgrades, RAM, GPU, etc, and some of them have been fantastic upgrades, but none of them have come anywhere near the SSD performance increase I saw as a result of spending just less than £100 (Vertex 2E 60GB). Even if the drive was double the money it would still be worth the upgrade imo.
 
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I've not got any games (aside from wow - never play it anymore) on my ssd so cant comment on game loading times.

However, whenever im fixing a machine im constantly thinking that its really slot to boot and in windows until i realise its because im so used to an SSD now. They really do make using a computer so much better.
 
On L4D2 with my SSD, I'm always 95% of the time in before anyone of the other 7 players. It's good because I get to go and nab the melee weapon first. :D
 
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bhavv said:
Actually, I've been playing MMOs for years off normal un raided hard drives, and I've always loaded up faster than most other people.

I'm pretty sure that the loading time is based on your internet speed for online games, not on your hard drive because you arent loading from a saved file, you are recieving all your character data to load from the servers. your PC loads the textures and graphics, but they never really take too long from a hard drive.
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I'd strongly disagree for most FPS games, the amount of data that needs to be transmitted between you and the server at the point you join is insignificant compared to the amount of level data (textures etc) that need to be loaded - we're talking maybe a few hundred kilobytes compared to a few hundred megabytes.

Obviously having low latency and no packetloss helps and some games will cache level data etc but to suggest that your 'internet speed' is the main factor in level load times just doesn't stack up for the majority of these sort of games.
 
Would probably look at getting an SSD but how do you get round the drives small size? You could only get a few games and an OS onto it?
 
I think the idea is you just put the main games you play that would see an advantage from this (i.e. games where you can play from the moment you spawn).
 
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