Like many modern PC gamers, I have a SSD with my OS installed and a secondary HDD with all of my games installed to it. Both are internal, both are SATA. For the most part, the games run fine off of my HDD.
For some games, however, I will see huge spikes in response time. For some games it's only during cutscenes. For others it happens during gameplay, too. I can always tell when it's happening because the audio cuts out, like it's trying to load and can't. After about a minute, the last 30 seconds of audio pours into the speakers over a second and I hear it all at once in a drum-piercing screech. It's annoying, to say the least.
I know that having a second HDD for games is pretty common, given how expensive solid state can be.
I should also add that uninstalling the game from my HDD and moving it over to the SSD completely removes the problem for that game. But that sort of defeats the purpose of having a big HDD to install all of my games on.
Is there something I'm doing wrong? Some special setting I need for a setup like this? Did I mix models that shouldn't be? I have specs listed below but if there's any other scan I can do to help, please let me know. Much appreciated...
Things I've already done:
Set HDD sleep from 20 minutes to 60 minutes.
Turned off indexing on the drive (did that yesterday, made no difference)
Set to optimize performance instead of quick eject
Specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
AMD FX 6100 cpu
Asus Sabertooth 990fx motherboard
SanDisk SDSSDH2256G (SSD) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171741
WDC WD10EZEX-00KUWA0 (HDD) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339
For some games, however, I will see huge spikes in response time. For some games it's only during cutscenes. For others it happens during gameplay, too. I can always tell when it's happening because the audio cuts out, like it's trying to load and can't. After about a minute, the last 30 seconds of audio pours into the speakers over a second and I hear it all at once in a drum-piercing screech. It's annoying, to say the least.
I know that having a second HDD for games is pretty common, given how expensive solid state can be.
I should also add that uninstalling the game from my HDD and moving it over to the SSD completely removes the problem for that game. But that sort of defeats the purpose of having a big HDD to install all of my games on.
Is there something I'm doing wrong? Some special setting I need for a setup like this? Did I mix models that shouldn't be? I have specs listed below but if there's any other scan I can do to help, please let me know. Much appreciated...
Things I've already done:
Set HDD sleep from 20 minutes to 60 minutes.
Turned off indexing on the drive (did that yesterday, made no difference)
Set to optimize performance instead of quick eject
Specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
AMD FX 6100 cpu
Asus Sabertooth 990fx motherboard
SanDisk SDSSDH2256G (SSD) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171741
WDC WD10EZEX-00KUWA0 (HDD) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339
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