Installing an MMO on SSD

[Abriael]

Personally there's only one thing keeping me away from SSD's and that's the limit to writes before it becomes a costly brick.

I know it'd probably last a long time anyway, but that's a factor out of my control, and I hate factors out of my control.

[ispano]

Personally there's only one thing keeping me away from SSD's and that's the limit to writes before it becomes a costly brick.

I know it'd probably last a long time anyway, but that's a factor out of my control, and I hate factors out of my control.

No one likes Entropy man, but honestly, this way you can at least gauge the life. where with a standard spinning disc, who knows when that will give out.

[Dhalmel]

Personally there's only one thing keeping me away from SSD's and that's the limit to writes before it becomes a costly brick.

I know it'd probably last a long time anyway, but that's a factor out of my control, and I hate factors out of my control.

You're more likely to have a HDD fail on you than run out of write cycles.

[Abriael]

You're more likely to have a HDD fail on you than run out of write cycles.

Funnily enough, in about 20 years of using HDD's none ever failed on me.

[ispano]

Funnily enough, in about 20 years of using HDD's none ever failed on me.

I've had a few, but the amount has been small. However, they were all out of left field.

Now, granted, OTHER things can go wrong with an SSD besides the finite write cycles.

[finiteHP]

I'm also looking at possibly getting a SSD, but my motherboard is old enough that it only has SATA II (so 3Gb/s). I know SATA III drives would still work just at the lower speed, but would I still get a noticeable different over a HDD?

[Alegis]

Personally there's only one thing keeping me away from SSD's and that's the limit to writes before it becomes a costly brick.

I know it'd probably last a long time anyway, but that's a factor out of my control, and I hate factors out of my control.

You think the lifespan of an HDD is within your control?
Just to let you know, it isnt.
Everything, let it be an HDD, your TV or your whole PC can turn to be nonfunctional the next day.

[Solace]

Go SSD, You won't look back once u do..
I didn't.

[Firesped]

I actually have 2 SSD in my system. The first one I got was just for games, MMOs. I haven't touched many of the newer Single player games but I can tell you this. all MMOs out there have hundreds of thousands of files, even if you can't see them, and a SSD will make a difference.

If you make it your primary drive, you want to make sure you have a secondary HDD as well, more your user directory to that drive, so your downloads and cache will be saved there. It will help save your SSD life.

Also, you want to always make sure you have like 30% or more of the drive empty. It has to do with it the speed you get from the drive.

[tymora]

Barring any other physical failures, you are unlikely see the end of your SSD due to the end of a write cycle before you decide to buy the next one for higher speeds or capacity.

The beauty of SSDs is that they actually tell you when its life is ending, and you won't lose the data on it when it runs out of write cycles either. All the data just becomes read-only at that point...

So do it....MMOs won't be the same when you place them on SSDs...