Seriously.
If you’re not using an SSD to run WoW you should. It’ll change your life in the World of Warcraft. You’ll never be able to go back.
Now instead of waiting for dungeons to load, I’m waiting for the tank on HDD to load.
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My entire computer is run on SSDs and I will never go back. Things are so much faster, plus the cost and size of SSD are constantly getting better.
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So you’re saying it didn’t actually change anything for you?
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The game has it’s own SSD in my system. I still have long load times and assets piping in after load.
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There is still a limit on how fast the game loads. I recently upgraded from a 600 mb/s read/write ssd to a 7000 mb/s read/write raid setup and I didn’t see much of a difference in load times.
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Wholesome post, wholesome thread
I’m thinking OP is based
Yeah, going from one type of SSD to a faster version is going to have diminishing returns. But going from HDD to SSD is amazing.
It made playing Fallout 4 a lot better too. OMG that game has looooooooong load times in the later parts.
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At some point near the end of Legion (prepatch?) the size of the game increased dramatically and I had to move it from my admittedly small SSD to my HD.
Maybe one day I’ll get a larger SSD but right now holy poop is this game huge.
Look at plextors m.2 drives that plug into pci slots.
Awsome and cheap and works in older systems.
You’re motherboard doesn’t even have to support it. You wont be able to use them as a boot drive for windows, but windows will find it after its booted to put all your games on.
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The only problem with SSD is it’s not as reliable as an HDD.
You can take a hammer to a HDD and still have it working. Most of the time it just dies on you with out any warning for SDD
Lol…
Come again?
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If a hammer smashes your SSD inside your computer case I don’t think loading times is your biggest problem right now.
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Your typically quality SSD will out live the computer it is in. And when they fail it is usually sectors of memory and not the entire drive. We are well beyond the dark ages of SSD, most of those problems have been ironed out of years now.
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I have samsung ssds for boot drive with a 5 year advertised life span that 9 years old and still kicking.
Hit any part of your pc with a hammer and its not going to work anymore. Also, hdd are highly susceptible to shock (hammers) while ssd,s aren’t.
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My point is if you travel a lot you have to be careful with SSD
My laptop with the HDD can take some bouncing around it’s been an extreme cold and warm weather. And Boots up without any problems.
Try that with an SDD and you’re asking for trouble.
You have that backwards.
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I recently upgraded my computer with a SSD and the difference is night and day. With my old HHD when I logged on it sometimes took 2-3 minutes for everything to load now its near instant compared to what it was.
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I have had the complete opposite experience.
He’s wrong. conventional hard drives have moving parts and bounces, shocks, drops can occasionally cause failure in some way. SSDs are SOLID sate drives. It’s flash memory like your flash thumb drive. Much more durable, lighter, smaller.
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To clarify, everything that you play should be running off an SSD.
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