I am just wondering, i just bought a new computer online that will be delivered next week.
It comes with a 500 gb ssd boot drive and 1 tb hdd 7200. If I install wow on the ssd, will it create an issue?
Thank you
no its fine
use the HDD for programs and files. In the future just buy an additional ssd/m.2 or a hybrid HDD to replace the current one.
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Should be all good, SSD’s have incredibly fast read/write capability so there shouldn’t be an issue installing games on system drive NVME, PCI-E, or SATA3 SSD’s.
I’ve been running WoW and my OS on an even smaller SSD, it’s fine. A big step up from having WoW on any kind of HDD.
Yes. Bobby will wait outside your house with small rocks and throw them at your window every night.
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Just install everything on the SSD and just keep your HDD for your por… I mean media collection.
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Portfolio? Accounting data can sometimes take up a lot of hdd space.
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Funny thing is that the forum filter won’t even let me write what I meant.
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I was advised to not have games on the same SSD as your OS if you can because its faster to have a dedicated card just for game access. SSDs fail too. So I like to think it is balancing the workload. All optional though. Maybe this is outdated advice?
Haven’t heard that before. Seems like strange advice. Who gave it? SSD retailers?
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Its 100% fine
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Everything falls eventually but my first Samsung 840 SSD (2012) which I stopped using a few years now is still working (gave the old old PC to my nephew) and I haven’t heard any complaints on it. Unlike the HDD’s from that PC that failed years ago.
Ive had people in game tell me that. Look in the gaming forum as well, you will find something on it there.
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No issue at all, you get a very very slight marginal improvement by separating the OS and games onto different SSD’s but separating in the above case and putting WoW on the HDD would be far worse than putting both on the SSD.
If your new PC allows I would recommend at your earliest to just snag a 250GB SSD and if you have a friend who can help, reformat to put the OS on that; this way you can use the 500GB SSD for more games, the 250GB SSD for OS and random small apps (Photoshop, etc.) and the HDD for things like movies / pictures / etc. (big single-file items).
SSD’s are so cheap though going full disk-less is a joy and a possibility.
Yep, put anything you use/access regularly on the SSD and anything you use/access infrequently on HD. Basically hot storage vs. cold storage.
Only really true if you’ve got a tiny SSD — like 128GB tiny. Might be a bit relevant for 250GB, but for 500GB+ can be safely ignored entirely.
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The pc i bought as a 1tb nvme.m2
starting in 2009 i began using SSDs as my system drive, with WoW also installed.
only my first SSD from 2009, which is only 128gb, had a capacity issue with fitting WoW and the OS (win10) in 2017; that laptop is now retired
i currently get by with a 256gb system drive but i have my users folder linked over to the 1TB d:\ drive
I bought a 2TB external SSD running USB 3.0 on my laptop and it only has WoW on it.
Game loads a lot faster than when I ran it on the HDD that is in the laptop.
When playing the game I never see the HDD light turn on in that laptop.
It would create a benefit. Way shorter load times.