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I've just done a few tests on gaming folders - zipping them up they seem quite compressible (50-75%) and I want to add a second SSD to my gaming PC just for most played games off my HDD.
Am I right in thinking that a Sandforce based SSD like an Intel 530 will be the best to fill up with games?
If it compresses the data, it should increase provisioning on the drive automatically and reduce write amplification. Should help with those huge install sizes of modern games. Also should give a little boost to read speeds as the data is compressed.
I've had a good read and modern Sandforce controllers only really suffer from pure incompressible data write speeds, which is not important on a gaming only drive. I'd imagine any SSD when loading games is going to be quite similar so just deciding if compression is a good thing for continual huge game installs.
Is this correct? Thanks guys.
I've just done a few tests on gaming folders - zipping them up they seem quite compressible (50-75%) and I want to add a second SSD to my gaming PC just for most played games off my HDD.
Am I right in thinking that a Sandforce based SSD like an Intel 530 will be the best to fill up with games?
If it compresses the data, it should increase provisioning on the drive automatically and reduce write amplification. Should help with those huge install sizes of modern games. Also should give a little boost to read speeds as the data is compressed.
I've had a good read and modern Sandforce controllers only really suffer from pure incompressible data write speeds, which is not important on a gaming only drive. I'd imagine any SSD when loading games is going to be quite similar so just deciding if compression is a good thing for continual huge game installs.
Is this correct? Thanks guys.
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