Where would you install your Games? ( SSD or HDD )

[EarthDog]

It will be running for 6/7 months after that will be replaced

Why? That seems like you are wasting quite a bit of life... Hell I have Vertex 2's still running in my benching system and can barely notice a difference in performance between it and the Vertex 460 I currently run on the other system as far as load times.

 

[RealNeil]

I run them until they die. (with proper DATA Backup)

 

[FireFox]

Why? That seems like you are wasting quite a bit of life... Hell I have Vertex 2's still running in my benching system and can barely notice a difference in performance between it and the Vertex 460 I currently run on the other system as far as load times.

In 6 or 7 months there will be something better out there.
After I replace SSDs I just give it away to someone that could need it.

Edit: in 7 months that SSD will still give good performances so someone can take advantage of it.

 

[xorbe]

I installed Rage on the SSD, so the textures would load in a reasonable amount of time ... almost done so I can delete that title.

 

[EarthDog]

In 6 or 7 months there will be something better out there.
After I replace SSDs I just give it away to someone that could need it.

Edit: in 7 months that SSD will still give good performances so someone can take advantage of it.

While its awfully noble that you like to sell your old wares, the difference in SSD performance over such a little time (hell, double that to a year) is negligible for most users. Are you saying you use your PC/SSD to transfer large files to and from another SSD frequently so that you can actually notice the difference?

Butt dynos... they be screwing with people's minds and wallets, yo...

 

[FireFox]

Are you saying you use your PC/SSD to transfer large files to and from another SSD frequently so that you can actually notice the difference?

I don't use to do that

 

[EarthDog]

Wish I had your discretionary income to waste cash like that!

 

[RealNeil]

Wish I had your discretionary income to waste cash like that!

Right now, the sales that are going on have really dropped prices and combination deals are making it all a lot sweeter too. I have been saving up for a i7-4790K and was able to buy a Kingston 240GB SSD too. Considering the lower cost of the CPU, I didn't get the SSD for free. But I got it for about half of the normal price.

Being on a fixed income, I have to find the best deals out there.

 

[EarthDog]

Great news for you, but I was talking to the guy that upgrades his SSDs every 6/7 months and upgrades to something faster.

I'll take the high road and call him a philanthropist. Lol!

 

[RealNeil]

I'll take the high road and call him a philanthropist. Lol!

At least he's giving them away. I really can't afford to give SSDs away, but I am planning to contribute something towards the next FAH Tribute PC giveaway.

 

[EarthDog]

We all do what we can, when we can (we hope).

 

[hat]

I have an SSD for my OS and programs, and one for my games. I regret spending the money on the SSD for my games, though. I noticed no great difference, hardly any difference at all in load times, even with the 4GHz i7 I had at that time. Any respectable HDD would do for games. I paid $330 for it a couple years ago. With that money today I could have had a 1TB velociraptor and had $100 left over, for little to no performance impact.

SSD is grand for OS, not so much for games... just not needed there.

 

[jboydgolfer]

personally I wouldn't waste an SSD on a game.Unless it was a HDD intensive game like Arma or DayZ, I see no significant benefit to justify the excessive cost.I run seprate drives for specific task's, like, steam, DayZ,games/storage, but SSD is just not worth it to Me.Maybe if your running a weaker PC, with not too much RAM , or something, but I can't imagine that write, and read speed's are going to improve game performance, Definitely NOT FPS, Loading(MAYBE) , but that's where the benefit end's.Or maybe it's because I'm not rich, and I hate wasting money.

 

[EarthDog]

I can't imagine that write, and read speed's are going to improve game performance

They dont in frame rates... just level loads and such.. it can help in some MMO's/RPGs especially.

 

[FireFox]

Great news for you, but I was talking to the guy that upgrades his SSDs every 6/7 months and upgrades to something faster.

I'll take the high road and call him a philanthropist. Lol!

Is not for upgrade to something faster but something better.

I was already thinking to get a nice Samsung 850 serie

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Id add another option to the vote and say 'mixed' cuz i have some games on ssd and some games on standard hdd

 

[FireFox]

Id add another option to the vote and say 'mixed' cuz i have some games on ssd and some games on standard hdd

Option added

 

[jihadjoe]

I install everything to SSD, then when a game is pretty old and infrequently played I just move its entire folder over to HDD and leave a symlink in it's place on the SSD.

 

[FireFox]

Id add another option to the vote and say 'mixed' cuz i have some games on ssd and some games on standard hdd

For me HDD is good just for the reason that you can get a lot of GB for less money.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Ive moved a few steam games to SSD

TF2, KF, CS:S/CS:S GO, ARMA II & III

Also farcry 4 (which i havent played at all yet) the BF games & Guildwars 2 cuz loading into lions arch from login can be a bit of a bitch on a standard hard drive.

 

[FireFox]

I install everything to SSD, then when a game is pretty old and infrequently played I just move its entire folder over to HDD and leave a symlink in it's place on the SSD.

I just install games on my second SSD then when I don't play it anymore I just uninstall it.

 

[Aquinus]

You could have a regular HDD with an SSD cache drive to achieve the same goal and still improve the amount of storage you have. I guess that depends on how important the amount of storage space is to you, because if extra space isn't important there is no reason to go from an SSD to HDD.

 

[EarthDog]

Is not for upgrade to something faster but something better.

I was already thinking to get a nice Samsung 850 serie

Better? Im curious, how you quantify better? Why is a Sammy 850 'better' than a 840 EVO?

 

[FireFox]

if extra space isn't important there is no reason to go from an SSD to HDD.

One Samsung 840 EVO 1TB for games is enough for me.

 

[xBruce88x]

it somewhat depends on the game, but the games that have the most disk activity would definitely go on an SSD for sure. One game I know has a HUGE benefit in terms of IOPS is SimCity4. I know its an older game, but the way its designed... well. lets just say i went from a slideshow of 10fps to a smooth constant 40fps and no slow downs, well at least not until its memory leak ate up all my ram.

though just not poorly optimized games will benefit... just about any game that streams data while the game is in play will see a boost. (mass effect anyone? that graphics quality pop-in).

If you can afford it... all games and programs that have heavy random drive access should go on the SSDs. Documents, movies and other vids, music, and even installers can go on a regular HDD