Just bought an SSD

[Soukyuu]

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

And don't write to them more often than really needed, since that's the primary reason for SSD wear. One reason why I have the SSD for OS + programs and a HDD for data and folders frequently written to, like tmp

As for games, I can only concur with what was said before, it removed microstuttering in 1.0 and decreased loading times for nearly everything else I tried.

Prices have dropped significantly over the past year, so a SSD isn't that expensive anymore. It's well worth its money.

[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

[Zenaku]

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

You get a 120GB SSD and have 500GB+ HDD i right now have two HDD one 250GB and a 500GB but my 250gb seem to be failing. So i may end up getting a 80 or 128gb SSD for FFXIV

[Vilhem]

You get a 120GB SSD and have 500GB+ HDD i right now have two HDD one 250GB and a 500GB but my 250gb seem to be failing. So i may end up getting a 80 or 128gb SSD for FFXIV

Yeah yeah, like I mentioned I have a 180GB SSD and a 2TB HDD in my desktop, but still...I have about 50% of that SSD used up on applications and Windows >.> But that's probably because I'm a digital artist and I have some of the pretty heavy programs like Adobe Suite and Autodesk Maya/MotionBuilder/Mudbox...among other stuff @.@