Ssd vs Regular hd in gaming

Newtoeveryting · Jan 5, 2015

What are the noticeable directs between an ssd and a regular hard drive in gaming?

Spudmaster · Jan 5, 2015

The only time I notice a difference is when loading the game I don't notice any difference to gameplay.

numnums · Jan 5, 2015

In terms of load times, there is a difference. Gameplay wise, no differences. I've done some tests on my PS4 and PC and the only differences were faster loading times as well as faster texture loads on SSD. Honestly, if you really can't wait an extra 10 seconds for a game to load, then by all means go for an SSD. It's also noted that games frequently write data, so gaming on an SSD significantly uses up its available writes. Not to mention the size of game installs these days can take between 20Gb to 40GB, you'll be eating through an SSD really quick. Just my opinion.

Solandri · Jan 5, 2015

numnums :

Actually, for most games I've noticed the difference is like 30-45 sec on the HDD vs 10 sec on the SSD. But let's go with your 10 sec figure.

If you wait 10 extra sec per load screen, and you see 10 load screens per night of gaming, and you play games 150 nights a year, and you play games for 20 years before you have a family and kids and become one of those "I don't have enough time to play games anymore" people like me, then you've been staring at load screens for:

(10 sec) * (10 per night) * (150 nights/year) * (20 years) = 300,000 seconds = 3.47 days

If you want to waste 3.5 days of your life doing nothing but staring at load screens, that's your right. Personally I would get the SSD. It saves time not just with games, but with all other disk access on your computer. After 20 years, it will probably have saved you a couple months of sitting and waiting for your computer to finish doing something (reboots, starting programs, swapping, virus scan to finish, etc). If you've only got a HDD, a SSD is dollar-for-dollar the single biggest performance improvement you can make to the computer.

It's also noted that games frequently write data, so gaming on an SSD significantly uses up its available writes. Not to mention the size of game installs these days can take between 20Gb to 40GB, you'll be eating through an SSD really quick. Just my opinion.

The write endurance for most SSDs requires you to write dozens or hundreds of GB of data to it per day to fail in less than 10 years. A game isn't going to impact that in the slightest.

numnums · Jan 5, 2015

Solandri :

numnums :

Actually, for most games I've noticed the difference is like 30-45 sec on the HDD vs 10 sec on the SSD. But let's go with your 10 sec figure.

If you wait 10 extra sec per load screen, and you see 10 load screens per night of gaming, and you play games 150 nights a year, and you play games for 20 years before you have a family and kids and become one of those "I don't have enough time to play games anymore" people like me, then you've been staring at load screens for:

(10 sec) * (10 per night) * (150 nights/year) * (20 years) = 300,000 seconds = 3.47 days

If you want to waste 3.5 days of your life doing nothing but staring at load screens, that's your right. Personally I would get the SSD. It saves time not just with games, but with all other disk access on your computer. After 20 years, it will probably have saved you a couple months of sitting and waiting for your computer to finish doing something (reboots, starting programs, swapping, virus scan to finish, etc). If you've only got a HDD, a SSD is dollar-for-dollar the single biggest performance improvement you can make to the computer.

It's also noted that games frequently write data, so gaming on an SSD significantly uses up its available writes. Not to mention the size of game installs these days can take between 20Gb to 40GB, you'll be eating through an SSD really quick. Just my opinion.

The write endurance for most SSDs requires you to write dozens or hundreds of GB of data to it per day to fail in less than 10 years. A game isn't going to impact that in the slightest.

Good to know. You're the expert, not me.

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