Game storage: SSD bandwidth or latency more important?

BlizzardX · 15 Apr 2016 at 05:54

Hi

I've got a question regarding running games from a NAS with an SSD installed. The network topology is 1GBe, so saturated it would do around 110-115MB/s.

So, what is more important for games loading and streaming fast; bandwidth or access latency? Capped at the network speed, am I likely to see games load as quickly as if they where local to the machine on a SATAIII bus or do games stream greater than 110MB/s? Are there many games that would be capable of streaming data in at more than 300MB/s?

Cheers,

Chris

KIA · 15 Apr 2016 at 18:28

Latency, IOPs and raw throughput. The network drive will be a big bottleneck.

BlizzardX · 15 Apr 2016 at 20:24

I guess I should state that I already do this with my mechanical drives and it doesn't seem to be much different to when they where on local SATA buses; would the access latency offered by the SSD make it seems snappier?

KIA · 16 Apr 2016 at 17:45

It varies from game to game, but in general, yes.

crapler8 · 18 Apr 2016 at 09:59

i would say latency