I’m actually curious about this, i have a SSD but even for me some loads take a while, and boy, this xpac have too many loads.
I highly recommend getting an M.2 solid state drive. The original SSDs are no longer worth having. Check out the Samsung 970 Evo Plus. Very fast M.2 SSD.
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I just upgraded it to one before getting shadowlands, I am so glad I did because the game was so slow before. I could not imagine playing shadowlands without one.
Im haveing zero issues with it.
I just moved my Blizzard directory over to an external USB 3.0 drive and I’m going to have to say that it’s been a bit hard on the load times. Sometimes not all the character models are loaded and I am constantly hearing the eHD chugging along.
Just fine.
no issues for me so far
I mean the occasional world server down happens but that isn’t an SSD issue
I concur with sniper. I had already used an SSD but I switched to full NVME SSDs on a small mobo and goodness, it’s so good!
I start my computer and it’s on the desktop in the time it takes for my monitor to detect my computer. WoW loading has been super fast except for sometimes at the end of 8.3 where it looked like it was downloading content (even though it was up to date).
i disagree. i have a regular non m.2 3.5 and its supper fast.
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You may think it is but its not. Non m.2 SSDs are now old tech and nasty inferior. Much slower.
Not true, standard SSD’s are just fine.
M.2 use up an extra PCIE lane that some people may not have.
If connected through SATA then their transfer speeds are capped with a negligible performance increase compared to a standard SSD.
Unless your MB can socket M.2 and you have the open PCIE lane, a standard SSD is the better buy. Plus they’re alot cheaper per Gb.
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Sata is still good, especially with a manufacturer like Samsung. But you do feel the difference after doing a full switch (I swapped two years ago).
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If your mobo supports M.2 it is a good investment. I have my older SATA ssd’s for other steam games and the games I play most on the M.2
again i disagree.
Nvme is a fair chunk faster but SATA ssd’s are not bad.
right, its not so much like moving from HDD to SSD where you can see the difference. i imagine if your moving large files around all the time and you know the times it takes.
In the lab you’re talking 2000MB/s for nvme, 600MB/s for sata and a very good hdd can manage 160MB/s.
In the real world it’s obviously slower but you can see that nvme is substantially faster. How much of a spend this makes in game is arguable and if you’re mobo/budget can’t support an nvme drive as sata one is fine.
Yeah, but only if you have the free PCIE lanes. Otherwise, the performance increase is negligible because the NVMe is capped by the SATA bus.
M2 drives require a specific kind of connector, and you have to have the right kind of connector for your kind of M2 drive. That said, an M2 NVMe drive can be twice as fast or more than a SSD.
However, an SSD can be slotted into a computer that only had the HDD drive cables and hookups and provide an immense boost in loading performance. If your only option is SSD, and what you have is an HDD, get an SSD.
Can also recommend Samsung. Their drive duplication software worked flawlessly for me.
An nvme drive uses 4 lanes so unless you have 2 video cards even low end CPU’s can provide that.
Nvme is not capped by the SATA bus at all, sounds like you’re thinking of M.2 sata drives not nvme ones.