Just bought an SSD

[Molly_Millions]

...Avoid OCZ like the plague...

Why? They have decent reviews on Newegg.com. I have an OCZ SSD and it's been working great.

[Reika]

SSD was better for 1.0 because 1.0 liked to do a lot of time-stamping of files, making it stutter quite a lot when it was on a standard HDD. Hopefully it wont be a problem with ARR, and it will simply help with load times.

[kazaran]

SSD haven't dropped fast enough.

Cheap slow write unit, are still expensive per gig. Decent ones 500/sec writes or higher wil lstil lcost you aroun 99.99 for 128gig. at which hpoitn better off skipping to 240+ gig for around 169.99-190.00 THe average peson isn't sticking in 500gig. Unless you have around a grand.

They are better utilized for either OS use, or Fast cache use. Fast caching means the OS should be on a main drive and the SSD as a cache to drive for common used programs, to offset memory. Once your main OS is loaded it isn't as big an issue, having FFXIV cached for common loaded data will speed it up, as well as most other programs.

Poppign one in a laptop with dual drive support makes a world of a difference.

[Reika]

SSD haven't dropped fast enough.

Cheap slow write unit, are still expensive per gig. Decent ones 500/sec writes or higher wil lstil lcost you aroun 99.99 for 128gig. at which hpoitn better off skipping to 240+ gig for around 169.99-190.00 THe average peson isn't sticking in 500gig. Unless you have around a grand.

They are better utilized for either OS use, or Fast cache use. Fast caching means the OS should be on a main drive and the SSD as a cache to drive for common used programs, to offset memory. Once your main OS is loaded it isn't as big an issue, having FFXIV cached for common loaded data will speed it up, as well as most other programs.

Poppign one in a laptop with dual drive support makes a world of a difference.

Yea but you really dont need to have a lot of them, and an SSD isn't required to make a system run, it just makes whatever you put on it load faster. Tis the price of conveiniece. They'll never drop lower than HDD's. I only have a 128gb and really dont need any more than that. Only going to have Windows, FFXIV, and some select games that I play all the time on them. the rest gets the HDD.

[Faiyez]

And was wondering how much faster an SSD was for 1.0? By that I mean how much faster was the install times and general gameplay time and load screens. Also how much better do you think it will be with ARR?

XIV was unplayable for me on an HDD. Too much stuttering.

[Dzian]

whats the life span off ssd these days?

My last one failed and got replaced twice and I gave up with them. never really thought about getting one since.

That said my current hdd isn't to bad. windows experience 5.9 on primary drive score. but it was super quick with 1.0. number of times i'd have whiskerwall about killed in moogle before anyone else even started moving.

[Mardel]

whats the life span off ssd these days?

My last one failed and got replaced twice and I gave up with them. never really thought about getting one since.

That said my current hdd isn't to bad. windows experience 5.9 on primary drive score. but it was super quick with 1.0. number of times i'd have whiskerwall about killed in moogle before anyone else even started moving.

I think some of the high end Intel ones are like 3-5 year guaranteed, or X amount of writes.

Be sure to get SATA 3 SSD, SATA 2 ssd are bleh, but make sure that you have a mobo that support SATA 3. It is also better on intel boards with the intel controller as opposed to the Marvell.

[nokinator]

ssd is super fasstest but back up you shi. because ssd only load so many times word of advice from recent exp, less then 1.5 yr on my ssd.

I got the game on the veloceraptor and so far its outlasted the ssd

[Wilksha]

Only thing I don't like about SSD is that they have a rather low tolerance lifespan. The more you write to a SSD the shorter it's lifespan. Best way to use a SSD though it for commonly loaded applications and the OS. I'd also make sure games that have an auto-save function don't save to the SSD. This will kill the drive as auto-save games see to save too often. Main use of a SSD should be instal and run and all save data and common write data sits on a standard HDD. Though more expensive I think the combo HDD+SSD are good but I think they are pricey.

[Dhalmel]

I like how people complain about the write lifespan of a SSD, this was a problem with the past with older controllers and shoddy quality NAND. Unless you're writing more than 1TB a day on your SSD you shouldn't worry about using up all of your NAND writes.


Stay away from crap brands like OCZ and untested/buggy controllers and you won't have to worry of such things. I own several SSDs from Intel, JMicron/Cruicial,Samsung not one has died and they've have been heavily used.