I live in australia… we can get 1TB Sata SSD’s for under 150 bucks… it takes 10 minutes and a flash drive to follow a tutorial and migrate an entire system over…
I would like to introduce you to the seagate momentus 500GB slim, I’ve never seen a drive that bad before
Computer cases aren’t terribly expensive. Maybe buy a bigger one and move everything into it?
Dead on arrival then. I don’t see this happening honestly. They’d lose half or more of their subscribers if they require an SSD. I still use a 7200 RPM drive and it works just fine.
Thanks for triggering my PTSD at the end.
A game literally can’t require a SSD/NVME unless they’re saying the i/o read times on your hard-drive is going to be so extreme you’re basically running a server program.
SSDs/NVMEs are cheap now. I remember paying $1/gb when they first came out. Now they’re like 15 cents to the GB.
I am surprised no on is complaining about SL running on Intel 630.
I have 3 systems in my house with his built in video:
1 Acer I3-7100
1 Dell Inspiron I3-7100
1 Mac Mini I3-8100.
All now have add in video cards and / or an eGPU (Mac)
The Windows PCs were somewhat playable on the 630. The Mac struggled.
Adding ANY video over built in was the best frame rate increase I saw.
The Acer and Mac Mini came with an SSD, I added a spare SSD I had used to update an old laptop. It helped loading times, but didn’t do much for playability
To be honest buying an SSD isnt that bad for full case pc’s. I just bought one for 111$ from amazon with a 3.5 bracket. The SSD is 1TB. Overall that is not bad for an upgrade.
Good Luck with your upgrades and Happy Hunting in Shadowlands.
One way that the difference is visible in-game is when going through portals or into instances with others. With an NVMe SSD I’m always the first to load into the other side, beating out SATA SSD users by 2-5 seconds and HD users by 15-25s. On average, by the time the rest of the group is inside, I’ve been doing donuts with my character for a while already.
Does that matter? Not a ton I guess, but turning loading screens into minor blips instead of sizable speed bumps is nice.
Another way is if you don’t have enough ram. Swap file hits are huge with HDDs and almost non existent with NVMe SSDs.
Yeah that’s true, I think swap file hits on HDs can cause chug when turning the camera and a couple of other situations in game. Or at least, I remember that being a problem on a low-RAM, HD-equipped machine.
But I play on a laptop that I only got a year go. It doesn’t have an SSD and I don’t know how to solder. If the loading screens get even more horrendous for me, I will throw this game in the trash. A game with cartoon graphics shouldn’t require such drastic hardware upgrades.
No need to solder, most computers (laptops included) have parts that can be swapped out basically like legos. In fact if your laptop has an HD, it’s guaranteed to be swappable because there is no such thing as a soldered-on hard drive, only soldered-on SSDs.
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If anyone needs an SSD, they’re like $25 on Amazon for a 250gb. Just upgrade already. That’s why we’re stuck with people still using 32 bit OSes, which makes the optimization lower on WoW.
To be fair it is really a super quality of life improvement.
A friend of mine built my machine in 2012 and it was a beast then. When BFA cane out it bogged it down for no obvious reason until I upgraded the hard drive. Now it is great again.
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What SSD would work on a “17-AN01DXHP OMEN LAPTOP 17 AN012DX”? Prefer an external I could go buy in a store(I avoid online ordering due to being hacked every single time I order).
I bought this and it is more than I could have hoped for.
Wait so if I have both an HDD and SSD, and I installed WoW on the HDD, I should uninstall and install on the SSD?
If the answer is yes, am I going to have to reinstall my addons?
You can buy them in Walmart, but they’re more expensive.
SAMSUNG 860 EVO-Series 2.5" SATA III Internal SSD Single Unit Version MZ-76E500B/AM 2019
Looks like this might be it
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05573956
External ports 1 USB 3.1 Type-C™ (Data Transfer up to 5 Gb/s, DP1.2, HP Sleep and Charge); 3 USB 3.1 Gen 1 (1 HP Sleep and Charge); 1 Mini DisplayPort™; 1 HDMI; 1 RJ-45; 1 headphone/microphone combo
If so any USC C or USB 3.1 would work for external drive.
I myself would prob go with something like this:
https://www.target.com/p/seagate-backup-plus-portable-5tb-external-hard-drive-black-sthp5000400/-/A-76457038
ITs only a little more than the 2GB version and since you can get it at Target, if its not in stock today, it can be send to your local store in 2 or so days (since you said you want to pick up online)
This may not be the top perfomer but it will handle everything you need.