SSD drive advise!

up2nogooduk · 6 Jun 2010 at 17:54

Hi,

At the moment i have a Seagate Barracuda 7200 500GB SATA-II as a my main drive. and a Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache running games separately.

what kind of things would i notice if i got a SSD drive (again separately) just for games. then i can use the f3 as the main drive.

or should i get a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB for games, which will be for my Asus Rampage III Extreme.

Cheers

up2nogooduk · 6 Jun 2010 at 19:13

Well from what i have read it doe's.
What would you recomend ?

This any good.... ?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-041-OC

is it the higher the Read and Write in numbers the better ?

Cheers.

Broken Hope · 6 Jun 2010 at 20:47

It's a good drive yes, but you may as well get 20GB extra space for less money.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-048-OC&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1669

up2nogooduk · 6 Jun 2010 at 20:55

Broken Hope said:
It's a good drive yes, but you may as well get 20GB extra space for less money.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-048-OC&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1669

Thanks for the reply

So is there much difference. does it have SATA 6Gbps ? as my board supports this.

I see this is same price and supports SATA 6Gbps. is it better ? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-006-CR&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427

Is it the higher read and write numbers the faster ?
It's mainly just for all my games. as my normal HD is only used for surfing the net, which is fine for me. would it still act ok like if it was my main drive? by having it as a separate drive?

Thanks a lot.

oLysmoLy · 7 Jun 2010 at 00:01

i reckon its best to just have an ssd just for the operating systrem hence only a 32gb would do..

oLysmoLy · 7 Jun 2010 at 00:01

any higher and your just paying for the exclusivity...

Zarf · 7 Jun 2010 at 01:18

It makes a decent difference, most of my game loading times better than halved. I did some comparison videos last year with a single Intel x25-m 80GB vs a Samsung F1 320GB.

Arma2 Loads
Crysis Warhead loads
TF2 Loads

I would however strongly recommend that if you got an SSD you put your OS on it as a priority, followed by your most frequently used programs and games.

Once you are in-game SSD makes very little difference (It will fix things if you have a game that stutters while quicksaving or texture load, but otherwise makes no difference)
It will however make a massive improvement to your time on the desktop, I have an SSD boot drive in all my computers now, once you get used to your PC working like it should without all the little niggles and delays a mechanical drive imposes it's difficult not to notice them any more.