SSD vs HDD for ARR

Hello, currently considering buy a SSD for ARR was wondering if it is worth it considering its an mmo and if so what brand shoulf i go with? 150$ budget atm

I'm playing off a RAMdisk but I don't think it's faster than an SSD. HDDs, ewww!

There are many different brands and whatnot, but try to get something with 500MB/s read/write speed. Just watch this thread and get a 250/256 GB when they go on sale. You just missed a sale on a 256GB one for $150.

http://www.overclock.net/f/327/online-deals

I play the game off a hard drive (since my solid state is reserved just for the OS and a few programs) and loading times are seriously 3-4 seconds between zones, maybe a tiny bit longer zoning into dungeons. There's really no reason to buy a solid state drive *just* for this game, it won't do much.

Now, that being said, I absolutely love having Windows on my SSD... boot times are like 20 seconds from post to desktop and everything is very snappy.

I keep my ssd strictly for my os and applications, I only have 128gb to work with so all games go on any of my other drives

SSD will only wait for loading time. It will reduce about half the time required to load the next map (with a good pc build) . But don't forget , you can't start a dungeon without all people so if you love dungeon crawling you're going to wait after the other anyway so consider this before buying it

Well SSD is still a new technik in Private computer, the more you use it the faster it breaks sadly an SSD has not a long life if you use it as a Gaming device, you should get a fast HDD the loadingtime is just 3-5 seconds less with SSD, and keepp OS on your SSD that will make a huge difference.

well the ssd problem is WRITE not Read you can Read the content for a very long time it only the write that is somewhat limited (not too much a problem IMO)

SSD's will make a lot of things faster on your computer. Especially since you don't need to defrag it and such. Just make sure to do some tweaks and adjustment to take better advantage of it.

I have two SSD's one for Windows and one for games. It's no contest, I originally installed FFXIV on the HDD and then when curiosity got the better of me I freed up some space on my gaming SSD and reinstalled to that. Everything to do with loading is much quicker, from initial bootup of the game to loading zones up. The main game effecting difference though is when you get raised, you shave a good few seconds off the load time which let's you get back into the fight quicker. When I am playing WHM I can tell when someone is using a SSD as the time from when they disappear and reappear to start moving again is much quicker, which gets them back in the fight faster.

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I'm playing off a RAMdisk but I don't think it's faster than an SSD. HDDs, ewww!

There are many different brands and whatnot, but try to get something with 500MB/s read/write speed. Just watch this thread and get a 250/256 GB when they go on sale. You just missed a sale on a 256GB one for $150.

http://www.overclock.net/f/327/online-deals

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You redump the game to RAM every time you restart your computer? ~9GB is a lot to transfer every time.

Hm never noticed that befor. Tried it just now from SSD and HDD don't see a difference, maybe it is nothing to do with SSD but with overall computer setup ?

it's because your computer spec are too low to see and difference. When your computer get a upgrade your hard drive will be the factor that limit your computer instead of the cpu or the gpu

SSD is the single best upgrade you can get for a PC right now. It won't impact gameplay very much, but it'll speed up the initial loading of the game into memory.

The only game I've ever bothered to put on my SSD that made an actual noticeable difference was Skyrim.

Despite what some people may think an SSD can improve all aspects of a game, including this one. A lot of the in game assets are called up from your hard drive and if you have a slow hard drive it takes longer for assets to load, this includes textures, models, music, etc. An SSD will also cut your load times by at least half. There are some SSD's that have a very long life as well. My two SSD's have an estimated lifespan of 2,000,000 hours. Both drives have nearly 10,000 read and writes and still have 100% life left. SSD technology has improved significantly, especially when it comes to lifespan.

SSD = OS and 1 game (current game being played). HDD = everything else, lol. That's how my system is setup, always.

Don't degfrag SSDs...

I would really recommend saving for a 256 gig SSD. Windows OS with its updates takes up a big chunk, and you want some free space for multiple apps. Its definitely a good investment, just make sure you google setting up a SSD for your motherboards BIOS. A lot of people simply plug it in and think they are getting all it offers. If the bios is setup properly for a SSD OS, the difference is night and day compared to someone who just plugged it in.

Any decent SSD will have a 5 yr warranty so if it craps out you mail it back to the manufacture and get a new one for the price of shipping.

I just put SSDs in everything I get now... Laptops and desktops. I couldn't ever go back to spinning platters. yuck.

For PC is can't say there is that much difference excluding loading times for maps.


For PS3, there have been reports of it running better on SSD.

I moved the FF14 folder from my HDD to SSD few weeks ago, but it doesn't make any noticeable difference to me.
Loading times between zones/initial loading feel the same, so I don't think SSD provides significant loading performance improvement on this game.

Perhaps it has something to do with my amount of RAM available which is 24G, but I doubt that's a factor since the HD access lighting rarely flashes during the blackened/loading screen, indicating the game is either under CPU process or waiting for server response.

I have a 250 gb SSD for installed games. Needless to say I load in instantly.