Just bought an SSD

[Vilhem]

I recently upgraded to an SSD myself and jesus...I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner.

It's helped me tremendously with my digital applications (Adobe suite and 3d modeling/rendering stuffs). I ended up retiring my 2TB HDD to internal storage space, where most of my 1.0 cutscenes and music are now

[Dhalmel]

Outside of Ul'dah where most PCs gathered I can't say there was much difference in performance.


Out of curiosity which brand/controller SSD did you get?

[Kirito]

Outside of Ul'dah where most PCs gathered I can't say there was much difference in performance.


Out of curiosity which brand/controller SSD did you get?

I bought the sandisk 128gb ssd. I originally planned to get the 64 gb for $80 but I saw that the 128gb was only $20 more. I'm thinking of running windows 7 ultimate or windows 8 on it. I'm leaning towards windows 8 since I saw a slight improvement on game smoothness when I played 1.0 on windows 8...

[Vilhem]

How can you live with only 128GB @.@ I feel cramped as it is with my 180GB.

[VitoScaletta]

I've made identical PCs one with SSD one without, bout $700-800 builds, the one with SD had noticeable boot up times, seconds. Other than that on XI zone loading time was no different, since its 'downloading data' not loading it from your SSD. That was also about a year ago and his SSD has since died, they def don't last long.

[Vilhem]

They do last if you take care of them, ie. disable defragging and enabling TRIM

[Kirito]

How can you live with only 128GB @.@ I feel cramped as it is with my 180GB.

I'm using my old 500gb hitachi hdd as my storage drive. But I'll make sure to install ARR on my sdd.

[AdorraEloom]

I had a SSD for the past 2 years now, and it is night and day, not just for games. Turning on my PC is like 10 seconds and windows is loaded fully, my HDD 10krpm would take about 1min. I been bored since the servers went down to I been playing skyrim a lot, and I decided to install it on my HDD 10krpm raptor and it ran ok, but had some stutters when running around the open world, small stutters but I did notice them. I than started a new character and deleted ff14 1.0 making room on my SSD so I decided to install skyrim on my SSD and wow what a difference. Before on my HDD when playing skyrim I could read the little tips you got or messages during loading, and skyrim has a lot of loading screens, but on my SSD during the loading screens the game loaded so fast that I could not even finish reading half a message or tip. I would say took 1-2 seconds during loading screens in skyrim VS the usual 10-15 seconds using the HDD. Also no stuttering when exploring the open world at all, smooth as it can be.

[Lirion]

I played 1.0 on both my HDD and later my SSD and I can tell you there was a huge difference how the game played. Like someone else said, on the HDD I got insane amount of stuttering when I started the game but on the SSD it was completely gone. Loadtimes was of course faster as well.

[kazaran]

ARR engine is different, even if playing of a slower laptop drive, the caching, ect is utilized better. SO you won't see the stutter mess of 2.0

Unless you are made of money a sufficient SSD for gaming isn't going to be easy. It's actually better all around, to have a ssd act as the direct load cache to windows. It will speed all around performance up for common used applications. Havign sufficient main memory is also a main step.