How fast harddrive do you need for 1440p textures?

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Recently i bought a 1440p monitor and I have come to a tought lately, that my harddrives are to slow to load hige quality textures. I have been experiancing som kinda of wierd load lag kinda, like in Arma 3, i run around and then it freezes for a 0.5 sec and comes back. The harddrive also make a clicking sound when it happens.

the harddrive i have my games on is: https://pcpartpicker.com/part/seagate-internal-hard-drive-st2000dm001

my whole build/spec: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RVNRjX

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Why you can get lag on a system when playing a game is not just related to how fast your hard drives is.

There are a few other factors, while opting for a ssd drive will improve loading of game textures of a higher resolution due to them being much larger in file size.

The other factors to consider are how much ram the Pci-e graphics card you have onboard.
The majority of game textures are stored locally on the graphics cards GDDR memory.
So the more memory you have the less likely during gaming it will have to send a request to the hard drive to send it new texture data.

Also the amount of physical free ram you have in your system matters, when you run a game.
Because depending on your graphics card and the amount of memory it has...
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I have noe space left on my SSD, thats the sad part, i got a few games on it allready. Then the question is, is it worth to but a 1TB SSD to have my games on?

Is there a test where they have tested this even?
 
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Why you can get lag on a system when playing a game is not just related to how fast your hard drives is.

There are a few other factors, while opting for a ssd drive will improve loading of game textures of a higher resolution due to them being much larger in file size.

The other factors to consider are how much ram the Pci-e graphics card you have onboard.
The majority of game textures are stored locally on the graphics cards GDDR memory.
So the more memory you have the less likely during gaming it will have to send a request to the hard drive to send it new texture data.

Also the amount of physical free ram you have in your system matters, when you run a game.
Because depending on your graphics card and the amount of memory it has on board, it can also reserve a part of system memory also.

For example: A system with a good graphics card that has 2GB of memory on board, and 4Gb of system memory.
Plus a mechanical hard disk drive to store the game on will fair worse, and may suffer slight lag on level loading or mid game texture swapping.

Where as a graphics card with 4Gb of memory on board, and system memory of 8Gb, or 16Gb will perform better even with a mechanical hard drive used to store the game on for level loading or mid game texture swapping, or loading.

If the the other two components such as the amount of memory the graphics card have 3Gb or above.
And you have at least 8Gb to 16Gb of system memory.

Then yes the last thing to improve on would be to get an SSD drive for faster loading.

 
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I happen to have the same HDD as you do. I have tons of data on it, including video project and games and they don't seem slow at all. I also have a 128GB SSD for the OS, so I'd know the difference in terms of speed and response time.

I would suggest thoroughly defragmenting your HDD, then checking disk usage in Task Manager->Performance Tab->Resource Monitor->Disk. Check graphs on the right and then click on Read and Write to set the column in descending order and see whether there's any user-installed application that's causing unusual load.

If that still doesn't solve your problem, take into account the following: I had your exact make and model of HDD and I ended up having to pay well over a grand to Seagate to recover my data because it failed. Seagate hard drives are unreliable. Use something such as HDTune and check your drive for errors (Error Scan tab) and other issues (Health tab). You can also use the tool to benchmark your HDD and then look for results from other people on the NeT to see if you're the only one experiencing the performance drops or if that's the performance you should expect from your HDD.

If that still doesn't get you anywhere, you may want to consider an SSD such as the Samsung SSD 850 EVO /PRO.
Cheapest 500 GB 850 EVO
Next best non-eBay site.

Cheapest 1TB 850 EVO

Also, I've just seen you've got 32GB of RAM with 2 2x8GB kits. That's definitely not recommended. If you experience freezes (for the entire system) or BSODs. That's where the problems could come from. I had a RAM configuration similar to yours and problems went away when I went to a 4x8GB RAM kit. You could yourself a copy of memtest x86, boot it from a USB or CD and let it running for at least 8-12h and see if it comes up with any RAM errors.
 
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Then i guess my theory were completly wrong since the harddrive only reads the textures when in loading screens. I did a defrag of my harddrives not to long ago actually and that took like 12 days to finish, so i will skip that part. i can always take a test of the harddrive and see if get any errors, with HDtune or Crystaldisk info.

I will also do a test of my RAM sticks and see if i get any errors on them, even tho i never freez i windows only, i could test to stress my ram by opening alot of chrom tabs and see if it freezes after a sertent amount of usage and if so i will just RMA the ram form where i bought it and all will be good :p

It could also happen from my small amount of VRAM i have on my videocards, its only 3GB and with far rendering distance i guess it will occupay most of it, getting a new gpu when pascal comes anyway so i am not to worryed about that part.

Thanks for the answers.
 
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I might be wrong but, the G930 Orion Spark has smartphone support, right? Get the Logitech Application and see if you can get a glimpe of VRAM usage while gaming.
Also, you could just play Arma 3 and ALT-TAB to AIDA64 to check VRAM use and see if it really is the source of your performance problem.
Please remember to select a solution to your problem.
 
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don't worry about that i got it covered with Evga precision X, its for overclocking gpu and such so it will show how much VRAM i use and i will come back to pick a solution when i have figured what the problem is, i am at work atm, so i will do some more testing when i get home.
 
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Seems like i couldn't find the problem, but i test RAM and VRAM usage anyway. VRAM allmost capped at 3GB and RAM had no errors, but i tryed to join another server it was working fine, so must be something with the server i was playing on i guess
 
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