ssd over rated imo - wait it out

TAC4U said:
I'd love that as well but seeing as how my Steam folder currently weighs in at a healthy 620GB I've got to be realistic. Currently the only 512GB SSD on OcUK costs over £1000 and it still wouldn't suit my needs. Therefore to me it makes perfect sense to opt for a 80-120GB SSD for my OS and HDDs for everything else. Currently I have a 150GB Raptor but it's very noisy and performance is far from ideal. I'm very tempted by the OCZ Vertex Limited Edition but I'm not completely sold just yet.
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thats a lot of games! all mine will fit on the VR

my vr gets a hd tune seek time of 7.0ms which compared to my seagate 1.5tb is twice as good [or half the time] it is noticable too, and it fits everything on i need, OS, games, programs etc for £100 im very happy with it
 
TAC4U said:
I'd love that as well but seeing as how my Steam folder currently weighs in at a healthy 620GB I've got to be realistic. Currently the only 512GB SSD on OcUK costs over £1000 and it still wouldn't suit my needs. Therefore to me it makes perfect sense to opt for a 80-120GB SSD for my OS and HDDs for everything else. Currently I have a 150GB Raptor but it's very noisy and performance is far from ideal. I'm very tempted by the OCZ Vertex Limited Edition but I'm not completely sold just yet.
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And of those 620GB of games, how many do you actually play in any given week?
It's very easy to cut and paste the game folders from within steam elsewhere until you need them.

You don't need a massive SSD if you're willing to spend a couple of minutes moving the install directory back if you want to replay an old game again. And if loading times on the game in question don't concern you, you can use symlinks and keep the game folder on a mechanical drive.
 
Zarf said:
And of those 620GB of games, how many do you actually play in any given week?
It's very easy to cut and paste the game folders from within steam elsewhere until you need them.

You don't need a massive SSD if you're willing to spend a couple of minutes moving the install directory back if you want to replay an old game again. And if loading times on the game in question don't concern you, you can use symlinks and keep the game folder on a mechanical drive.
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or as i've just discoverd you can get a programme that lets you keep your favorite games you use all the time on steam in the ssd and then have the other ones you rarly use on a diff h/d and still run them through steam without having to cut and paste stuff
 
I'm with a lot of other people waiting for the price to come down abit more before deciding to buy one.

The plus side of waiting also that the tech is improving :)
 
For those using steam, what I did was:

Install the main bulk of steam on a big mechanical HDD
Buy a couple of cheap patriot SSDs
Partition the SSDs so theres a drive for each game I want with 5-20gig to each depending on the game I was putting on there.
In the run prompt "compmgmt.msc /s" (computer management from the admin tools)
Under disk management I mounted the individual drives as folders in the steam install i.e. "Steam\steamapps\common\call of duty modern warfare 2" now points to e:
On the e: drive (one of the SSD partitions) I put the MW2 game files (the files inside the "call of duty modern warfare 2" go straight on the drive root not in "e:\call of duty modern warfare 2" and the same for any other game I want to run from SSD.

Now MW2 loads into game atleast 3x faster than it does from my mechanical RAID setup = win. And the bulk of my older steam games that I don't really play much any more aren't taking up precious SSD space :D

Also I use an SSD for the OS drive on my fileserver - its just a little Intel Atom 230 setup at 1.6gig - but with Win XP on an SSD it boots almost instantly again a massive improvement over mechanical HDDs - not to mention its silent and very cool - also big advantages in a low power 24x7 system.
 
I just bought a 250GB SSD and put Steam on there...!

Biggest noticeable factor from HDD -> SSD was Windows load time. It loads so damned fast it should be illegal.
 
If using an SSD as boot drive does it have any effect on load times of games stored on a mechanical HDD or to see a benefit does the game need to be installed on the SSD?

Noob question i know but not sure what the loading sequence in online gaming is for (i.e. whether for server loading or local loading or maps/textures, etc.).
 
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