Is WoW SSD Friendly?

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Is there any way to send logs to a different folder or drive?

I decided to move WoW and a few other games to a SSD, but for read-only. I need a more SSD-friendly WoW that does not use up write cycles. I want it to send to a regular hard drive.

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Maybe ask on the Technical forum, the people over there might have some insight.

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The write cycle limits of modern SSDs are beyond the reach of normal mortals. I wouldn’t worry about it.

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People still use SATA drives?

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For backups and “general” info, absolutely! lol

For what you spend on an SSD, you can basically get a normal HD with TEN TIMES the capacity. That’s useful for … just about everyone.

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I do for storage like my music , pics and I do my downloads to it.

Once I open my downloads then they go to my m.2 nvme ssd

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If you plan on playing it, it cant be read only, and i cant imagine for the life of me why you would need it to be?

Doesn’t matter what game you play, if its a modern, even mildly graphics intensive game, write cycles will be used just by paging data into and out of the paging (or swap) file, which is likely on your SSD too…and thats controlled by the OS, not the game.

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SSD are dirt cheap nowadays. I couldn’t imagine putting any type of game or other program on a HDD.

I personally haven’t owned a HDD in at least 8 years, but I don’t horde movies or security camera footage either.

My time you wear out any modern ssd to a point of noticeable performance degradation, there will be faster or cheaper alternatives available.

I’m still using an Intel Sata m.2 that I’ve had for a few years because pci 3 and 4 offer barely any increase to game load times, yet cost quite a bit more. Load times are still nearly instant after years of rewriting to it.

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I run both an HDD and an SSD. Almost every game I have run and load just fine still on an HDD drive.

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I remember when SSDs cost $1 a gb.

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SATA is a bus type. One of my SSD’s is SATA. M.2 is a lot faster, though. When I upgraded my PC last year, Windows 10 installed hilariously fast on my new M.2 drive.

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Moving any game, including WoW, to a solid state drive (SDD) will increase performance over a hard disk drive (HDD). I, too, use HDDs for long term storage as the price per GB is much less and load/write times are not an issue with pictures, music, Word documents, etc.

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SSDs are 5 times faster read speeds than your standard mechanical drives.

NVMEs are 2-3 times faster than SSDs.

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I still have a SaTa drive… this machine is a few years old… it does have an SSD, but bloated WoW pretty much forced me to move WoW to the HD…

loading screens, it’s noticeable… otherwise, this old machine is cooking just fine… I want another year or 2 from it, before I get a new gaming PC.

Obviously, I could toss some parts at this older machine, but it’s really the graphics card, not the SSD or HD setting the timetable.

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SSDs have insane lifespan and no single game will ever use it up before it becomes extremely obsolete.

Use a program like CrystalDiskInfo and you’ll see after years of usage, a heavily used SSD can still have only gone through less than 1% of its write cycles.

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I take it you weren’t around when Blizz put that SL required an SSD on the minimum requirements
:rofl:
Hilarious times.

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I have a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB that I used as both my game drive, then later my windows drive. After 6.5 years it has 25 terabytes written, and it’s warranty covers up to 75-300 terabytes. Although the warranty expired after 5 years.

Just put your documents and any non-programs on another drive like your hdd and you’ll be fine.

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I just upgraded to a PC with a SSD and the loads between zones is so fast now.
I am very happy with it.
It is a Skytech Chronos Mini

  • CPU: Intel Core i7-9700KF 8-Core 3.6 GHz (Max Boost 4.9GHz)
  • Case: Chronos Mini
  • CPU Cooler: Hyper 212
  • Motherboard: B365M
  • RAM: 16GB DDR4 Gaming Memory 3000 MHz
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 6GB
  • Primary Hard Drive: 1TB SSD
  • Power Supply: 550 Watt 80 Plus Bronze Certified
  • Networking: 802.11 ac
  • Operating System: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit
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You would need a serious amount of music and pictures to actually need a backup drive just to hold it. Like… In the 10s of thousands. My phone has over 700 from YouTube to mp3 and it’s not even scratching it

In modern times There’s absolutely no real reason to have one.

It’s the same as people who still keep vhs players because they still “have all their movies on it”

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For storage, yes. I have a 12TB drive full for my Plex server alone.

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