I have an SSD and I was wondering the experience is like for people that decided to keep using an HDD. Just curious.
Loading times by far.
I can boot windows in less than 30 secs
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Faster loading times.
Vastly slower load times.
To give you an idea, typical traditional hard drives don’t come close to saturating the max speed of their connection (SATA III), which is 600MB/s — you’d be lucky to top 160MB/s with them in perfectly ideal conditions. In real world usage they’re closer to 50-80MB/s most of the time.
SSDs on the other hand can easily hit that 600MB/s and exceed it. If you’re using an NVMe SSD, speeds can range between 1500MB/s all the way to upward of 6000MB/s on the latest models. They don’t run at these speeds all the time, but even at their slowest they’re several times faster than the fastest hard drive.
In addition, traditional HDs have added latency from needing to physically move the drive’s read head to the location of the data on the magnetic discs, whereas SSDs can access data anywhere on the drive instantaneously. This speeds up general computer usage where you’re reading and writing dozens of small files dramatically.
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An SSD is one if the best upgrades you can do to your computer to make it run much more quickly. It can cut loading times from 50-80%.
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I’m using a HDD and npcs take a while to pop in after using a hearthstone sometimes. Does a SSD fix that or is that a server thing?
it’s so much faster. i used to wait two minutes or more from a cold boot before i could really use my pc. it’s up in 10 seconds now, give or take.
i still have an HDD for storage on stuff that isn’t time-critical (movies, music, old games basically)
It’s actually noticeable. If I hadint of gotten an external ssd my load times into oribos would be 5minutes
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access times…SSD is split second…HDD is split hour, lol
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Swapped to a SSD back in Legion, Dalaran’s loading time was reduced by like 80%.
It’s a significant improvement.
Just to be a bit more specific here: both devices deal with loading and downloading information to your computer. The difference happens on a mechanical level. HDDs use moving parts to read and write data while SSDs have no moving parts; therefore, in any situation where data needs to be read or written, SSDs are significantly faster, because the computer does not need to wait for physical parts to move.
An SSD will probably help them load in faster. (It’s possible that it’s a memory/VRAM problem but that’s less likely, especially if you had a HDD.)
SSD is a Solid State Drive where there are no moving parts. Everything is stored on chips like RAM but never wipes when turned off.
HHD is Hard Drive with mechanical moving parts. Platters, where your data is stored, spit around while a head bounces back and forth to read the data at different sectors of the platters. Hence why HHD are slower than SSDs
Difference is in load times. I still have an HHD and my friend has an SSD. Basically he can load in, run to the quest guy, turn it in and be on his mount moving on before I can even load in most of the time.
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An SSD will provide faster load times versus an HDD, however, with WoW having become barely a faint copy of it’s former self, you will still see slow loading on a lot of stuff. Phasing, either entire zones, specific spots, or just the player themselves, along with coalesced realms, play a big a part in what loads and how quickly. And they have upped the ante on the amount of phasing with each expansion and every patch. That is also part of the reason why they recommend SSD drives, to offset the added overhead. You don’t NEED an SSD, but your gameplay will suffer less from it than an HDD.
Also, a better GPU will help out in this because it will draw faster screens.
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I guess I could have been more clear. I know mechanically what the difference is. I was more curious how people with HDDs are finding the experience in the game. Thanks for all your responses!
Speed. Mainly access rates.
A Hard Disc Drive a spinning DISC that a magnetic head reads and writes too, actually really old technology, but cheaper, too.
A Solid State Drive is special RAM, that you electronically read and write to.
Or put simpler a really good [7200 RPM] HDD can transfer about 200 MegaBytes per second.
An SSD can transfer data at about 550 MegaBytes per second.
These are internal drives not external, external will be limited by the USB transfer speed most of the time and not help as much as internal and this also assumes an SATA interface, other things can affect these rates. Raid storage can be even faster on both ends, but no one needs that for a video game…
Confused because its not Sunday, is this a troll thread? Nobody is playing PC games on a mechanical hard drive in 2020.