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Started by Axk29 | | 7 answers
How do SSD work?
I have a question regarding an SSD. Since it's close to November and maybe during Black Friday/Cyber Monday I might be getting an SSD, 120 GB or 250GB. However, how does is exactly make my games "load faster" someone told me that it does. If so, do I need to put in the game that I want to load faster there or does it just load faster even if the game is on my HDD. Example would be Skyrim with many mods?
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a b G Storage
October 17, 2014 9:30:56 AM

A raid is when you use 2 or more drives together. You can either make the transfer speeds faster or the data more secure or mirrored. If you break the raid array that means you take the raid array apart so they aren't being used together.
October 17, 2014 9:22:04 AM

JackNaylorPE said:
Performance on my Samsung SSDs increased measurably after I broke the RAID array.


Umm one question. I'm still quite new to the PC world and I just built this rig of mine about 2 weeks ago. I'm new to the terminology if you may explain what is RAID array and breaking it? Is that a good thing, I don't think I want to break anything lol. Please explain. Thanks
a c 125 G Storage
October 17, 2014 6:54:02 AM

Performance on my Samsung SSDs increased measurably after I broke the RAID array.
a b G Storage
October 17, 2014 6:46:19 AM

When you zone in Skyrim the zone times are much faster with an SSD as is the load times into the game with an SSD. Mine were under 1/2 second when I had 2 SSD's in a raid 0.
October 16, 2014 5:47:18 PM

ahnilated said:
SSD's have a much higher throughput than HDD's. Most HDD's are limited to about 150ish MB/s speeds where SSD's are limited by the SATA 6 interface speeds of about 560MB/s. So think how much faster your computer will load games and Windows. Plus the access time on SSD's is an order of magnitude faster than HDD's. I would get a 250ish GB SSD if you can afford it, it will be a nice improvement for you.


Hmmm so does that mean that it will load textures and what not faster? Cause I did read in this forum that it wouldn't make much difference because the loading of skyrim depends on GPU and CPU? Is this true? I mean I am thinking about the SSD for a while now but then again I will need to clone my Windows or reformat my HD and start transfering all games again -.-
a b G Storage
October 16, 2014 1:24:38 PM

SSD's have a much higher throughput than HDD's. Most HDD's are limited to about 150ish MB/s speeds where SSD's are limited by the SATA 6 interface speeds of about 560MB/s. So think how much faster your computer will load games and Windows. Plus the access time on SSD's is an order of magnitude faster than HDD's. I would get a 250ish GB SSD if you can afford it, it will be a nice improvement for you.
a c 125 G Storage
October 16, 2014 1:23:21 PM

It only works if it fits on the SSD

I have the OS and work programs on 1st SSD and all games on a 2 TB SSHD which is a SSD / HD "combo"..... it adjust to what game you are playing by taking the most frequently used files and putting them on the SSD portion .... you change games, it swaps the old games files out for the new one.

I have a spare SSD installed and cud put games on there.... but after having tried both, there's no observable difference in performance.

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