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Anyone have a laptop or desktop with and SSD? They are starting to get to be somewhat affordable at 64gig and 128gig, I have seen a tons of numbers from programmers who use them that literally beat a 10k spin hard drive by about 50%. Anyone have one on their gaming rigs? Wondering how much of a difference it might play into something like EQ2. http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=636&Tpk=SSd
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Cyanbane wrote:Anyone have a laptop or desktop with and SSD? They are starting to get to be somewhat affordable at 64gig and 128gig, I have seen a tons of numbers from programmers who use them that literally beat a 10k spin hard drive by about 50%. Anyone have one on their gaming rigs? Wondering how much of a difference it might play into something like EQ2. http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=636&Tpk=SSd The biggest difference I notice is zoning. Since zoning requires reading a bunch of data off the hard drive to put into memory, the faster read times really seem to make a difference. I did some comparisons between my old rig and my new rig to see how the hard drives compared. The old rig had two drives with a RAID controller. The new one is a single 256 Gig SSD. Check out the comparison here: http://www.eq2411.com/Lt2009
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Dethdlr wrote:The biggest difference I notice is zoning. Since zoning requires reading a bunch of data off the hard drive to put into memory, the faster read times really seem to make a difference. I did some comparisons between my old rig and my new rig to see how the hard drives compared. The old rig had two drives with a RAID controller. The new one is a single 256 Gig SSD. Check out the comparison here: http://www.eq2411.com/Lt2009 Wow I could not have asked for a better comparison, thats awesome. Thanks. It looks as though I thought it would be except for the write speeds to the Raid being faster than the SSD. What am I missing here (or am I interpreting the results wrong?). I would think the SSD write speeds would be about the same ratio faster compared to the RAID as the read speed were. Overall are you happy with the purchase (for not only EQ2, but other games, apps as well?)
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RAID can give some write speed advantage - SSD, on the other hand, is pretty slow on the write side of things. You have to bear in mind that it's flash memory rather than dynamic, so you won't see RAM-drive like performance. Short version is; use SSDs for static data you want to read fast (zone files being an excellent example); don't use it for swap :)
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