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Currently have Seagate Barracuda 1TB, partioned:- 100GB for O/S, 400GB for games(128GB free) and the rest misc. .
Will be getting SSD for O/S for obvious reasons.
My question is: are there any benefits from installing games on an SSD or just leave them on the Seagate?
 
You're going to have to spend a lot of money to be able to store 272GB of games on SSD.
The games will load quicker, both into the game and each level but once your in game and playing you won't notice any difference.

So to conclude. Leave them on your Seagate.
 
With a 128 gig drive I'd certainly install one or two games on there, but I'd be pretty picky about which ones.
 
imb4tman said:
You're going to have to spend a lot of money to be able to store 272GB of games on SSD.
The games will load quicker, both into the game and each level but once your in game and playing you won't notice any difference.

So to conclude. Leave them on your Seagate.
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Not 100% true.

Games will load faster and for some games that will be it.

BUT for games that stream data all the time eg ARMA2 etc ya will notice a huge difference in the smoothness of it (not more FPS) just smoother running.

ARMA is all ways streaming data due to the size of the islands etc and there for on my crappy HD its choppy and really annoying.

On BIS forums peeps with ssd`s says its much much better.

I cant say this is true for all games that have large islands eg MS flight sim?. etc but it is for ARMA.
 
I have 60gb ssd and I find that games load a lot faster on the ssd, substantially faster. But it does not necessarily increase fps. But anything that loads off the HD will be faster, be it unpacking textures in the load sequence etc.

The only problem with 60gb ssd is that I have windows 7 installed and some adobe apps etc. This leaves me with about 16gb at the most free space, so generally I can only install 2 or 3 games on the SSD.

At the moment I have nfs world and duke nukem forever installed and i have 12gb free space.
 
I installed portal 2 on my 60gb ssd, load times were rapid. After having windows installed, a few programs and portal 2, i was still hovering around the 15gb mark space left, now its done and uninstalled, back up to 25gb. Ive brought one of them 500gb seagate hybrid drives, just for all my games to go on now.
 
If I were to get a small SSD (32GB or 64GB) just for the OS, then put games on a standard drive would I really notice much of a speed increase?

I currently have a 400GB IDE drive that I will be using (via IDE->SATA adapter) for now, but tempted to get a small SSD for the OS instead of replacing the IDE drive.
 
One of the best things i brought for my computer was a ssd, just for a boot drive. Everything is now in an instant. For gaming i dont notice that much difference. But saying that, i cant compare as all the games im playing are all new to me, so i wouldnt know how they play on a normal drive anyway.
 
timmillwood said:
If I were to get a small SSD (32GB or 64GB) just for the OS, then put games on a standard drive would I really notice much of a speed increase?

I currently have a 400GB IDE drive that I will be using (via IDE->SATA adapter) for now, but tempted to get a small SSD for the OS instead of replacing the IDE drive.
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If you don't want to get in to symlinks or chopping out Windows features then I'd strongly suggest you at least get a 60gb SSD. I have a 30gb just for Windows 7 and I'm sitting at 7gb free with a few key things installed. Free space will only decrease over time and I fully intend on picking up a 60-120 gb ssd by the end of the year to replace it.
 
128GB SSD, partition 64GB for OS and 64GB as a Fancycache or Readyboost volume for your Seagate games drive.

That said, with 160GB space (150GB after formatting) I don't have any trouble keeping all the games I want on there (TF2 and the last 5 games I've had a brief fling with)
 
I currently only keep two games on my ssd, (bfbc2 + moh 2010), drive is a 120gb vertex 2e. Theese are the two i play most at the minute. All other games, and my steam collection will be kept on a second 1tb mechanical drive. Ive found load times to be a bit quicker on those two games with the ssd.
 
timmillwood said:
If I were to get a small SSD (32GB or 64GB) just for the OS, then put games on a standard drive would I really notice much of a speed increase?

I currently have a 400GB IDE drive that I will be using (via IDE->SATA adapter) for now, but tempted to get a small SSD for the OS instead of replacing the IDE drive.
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get a 60 or so gigabyte version. I have a 50 gig and it's perfect for W7, a few bits and a single game or so. just need to get your download file to go to your secondary hard drive. otherwise it fills up quick
 
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