What in relation to drive read types would gaming come under?

AeroCurt234 · Feb 15, 2017

When you're playing a game I assume it's reading quite a bit of files especially something big like ArmA 3, what type of file read would this be though? Like sequential or 4k, and is it random? Just wondering what makes games run smooth on a hard drive. Looking at a Seagate FireCuda 1TB for games and storage because my crappy 500gb one is too slow for games and my SSD is only 128GB.

Specs:

CPU: Intel core i7 4790k OC @4.3GHz
CPU Cooler: CM Hyper 212 Evo
Graphics Card: GTX 1070 Strix O8G 8GB GDDR5
RAM: 1x8GB DDR3 1600MHz HyperX Fury
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97P-D3 LGA1150
PSU: Corsair 750w Bronze
SSD: Crucial MX100 128GB
HDD: ST3500312CS 500GB

dontlistentome · Feb 15, 2017

I think on a hard drive it's mostly going to be random access, unless you have everything perfectly defragged all the time. I've experimented with games, not Arma 3 though, and the difference to me is only noticeable during gaming when loading the game or new levels. Streaming assets while gaming isn't affected. Clear some space on your SSD and temporarily install the game there. Then you can try it yourself.

AeroCurt234 · Feb 15, 2017

dontlistentome :

I tried this with ArmA 3 and on my hard drive it seemed to stutter often during playing and if I aimed through a scope or zoom in it would stutter too, but if it's on my SSD it doesn't. Probably due to the drive being slow.

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