So I recently bought a laptop that has both a 128gb SSD for boot and a 1TB hard drive for storage. It's working well and is pretty high spec (GTX 980m, i7 6700HQ, 16GB RAM).
The only issue is in games that are stored on the hard drive the load times are really bad. It's not just an issue with loading screens but even loading assets as the game is playing. For example when I played Stardew Valley (a pretty low spec game) recently, I pressed E to open my inventory and the game locked up for about 3-4 seconds while it presumably loaded the GUI assets in. I never have this issue after the first time as the assets have then already been loaded.
Games I have experienced issues with this so far are: Stardew Valley, Star Citizen, Dota 2, World of Warcraft, GTA V
Maybe the HDD isn't the real issue here, but this was my initial reaction since moving games to the SSD seems to fix it. It's possible that my HDD is not very high spec but I would imagine even a low speed drive would not cause this level of stuttering and freezing in games.
Thanks!
The only issue is in games that are stored on the hard drive the load times are really bad. It's not just an issue with loading screens but even loading assets as the game is playing. For example when I played Stardew Valley (a pretty low spec game) recently, I pressed E to open my inventory and the game locked up for about 3-4 seconds while it presumably loaded the GUI assets in. I never have this issue after the first time as the assets have then already been loaded.
Games I have experienced issues with this so far are: Stardew Valley, Star Citizen, Dota 2, World of Warcraft, GTA V
Maybe the HDD isn't the real issue here, but this was my initial reaction since moving games to the SSD seems to fix it. It's possible that my HDD is not very high spec but I would imagine even a low speed drive would not cause this level of stuttering and freezing in games.
Thanks!
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