Just bought an SSD

[kazaran]

THe write times I SSD's have increased. THe chip reliability has increased. Some will still out last your regular spinning drives. Just don't go too cheap.

even having a 64gig as a cache drive for most used programs helps a lot. IF you will primarily play XIV, windows is going to store textures and game data on the SSD speeding loads. The only time it will over write is when patches change data completely.

One thing I will say is, the new engine, is vastly improved. Even without a solid state drive on a laptop, that old stutter is gone. Load times are not long at all, and they are pre timed anyway between zones to balance it between systems.

Trust in them. Most players will be just fine and very happy.

A SSD won't hurt even with a fast engine. Especially in a laptop. It is less strain on the laptop. IF you USe Windows 7 or 8, you don't have to move the os to it. The newer cache setup is going to utilize it well (be sure to set it if you are adding the drive after initial setup).

THe more people use SSD, the more popular it becomes, the sooner prices will plumet. Eventually they will replace regular drives. THey have new chip designs coming out that are much more efficient then older SSD's.

[Eekiki]

Using my Crucial M4 500GB drive, and haven't had any problems with it. Runs like a champ.

As for a speed boost in-game, it will probably be minimal. Possibly unnoticible, because your speed will be limited by your network connection in many cases.

I noticed no difference in 1.X or in FFXI between my mechanical HDD and SSD as far as in-game performance, but the programs load quicker when I launch them.

Even so, buy one. Fewer mechanical parts in your computer means less opportunities for things to break.

[ispano]

Using my Crucial M4 500GB drive, and haven't had any problems with it. Runs like a champ.

As for a speed boost in-game, it will probably be minimal. Possibly unnoticible, because your speed will be limited by your network connection in many cases.

I noticed no difference in 1.X or in FFXI between my mechanical HDD and SSD as far as in-game performance, but the programs load quicker when I launch them.

Even so, buy one. Fewer mechanical parts in your computer means less opportunities for things to break.

The difference people noticed in 1.X on an SSD was due to the Client having almost 200,000 files vs a game over double the size having only ~6,000 files. The SSD handles the many many small files far better than a traditional drive. For many it removed micro stutters in game due to loading data.

[Eekiki]

The difference people noticed in 1.X on an SSD was due to the Client having almost 200,000 files vs a game over double the size having only ~6,000 files. The SSD handles the many many small files far better than a traditional drive. For many it removed micro stutters in game due to loading data.

Oh, and another thing I noticed is patches get applied waaay faster. ^_^

[Zenaku]

ok if i was going to get a 100ishGB SSD which one should i get? seeing how everyone here saying not to get a OCZ one.

[Vilhem]

I got a Corsair force and personally have been happy with it.

Is your MoBo SATAIII capable?

[Dhalmel]

Samsung 840 Pro or Intel 520*

[nokinator]

Samsung 840 Pro or Intel 520*

yes this is the one the samsung. The original i had was ocz

[TonyUK]

I have OCZ Agility III SSD, it does make a difference as people have mentioned with regards to stuttering, but when you zone and that loading black screen comes up, its also fetching server data, so FFXIV isn't going to make full use of a SSD. Battlefield 3 for example can take a minute on a standard hard drive to load a map, on a SSD it takes around 5 seconds. Some games the optimisation of a SSD drive will notice considerably more than on XIV. But i would never personally go back to a normal HDD.
Seagate do a line of solid state hybrid drives, which are part SSD part HDD, and adapt to which apps you use the most so they get stored on the Solid State part of the drive etc.

[Doki]

I had 1.0 on a Samsung 830 SSD SATA III , 250GB drive I use for games. It loaded significantly faster than a standard drive, and I saw the largest difference with zone loading and cutscene loading. It helped out with character blinking during equip swaps as well to a lesser degree. It's a decent upgrade, but way more noticable in other games. Several games with normally long loading times have little tutorial tip messages during the loading screens that I can't even read now since the games load so much faster.