Comments on: Comparison of HDD and SSD for World of Tanks

By: OOPMan

OOPMan — Fri, 30 May 2014 07:08:52 +0000

:-/

By: Mr. Perfect

Mr. Perfect — Thu, 29 May 2014 17:18:16 +0000

Compared to what? A hard drive? A SSD on SATA 2 would definitively be faster then a hard drive.

By: Togg

Togg — Thu, 29 May 2014 14:08:05 +0000

Use of line-in could work as well and use an external device to play the music (would allow you to keep an eye on the songs and manipulate it without alt tabbing as well).

Alternatively you could try a music player that plays songs on a local harddrive (preferably not the same your OS and games are installed on, but given that it’s a laptop probably no options). Regarding the music player, I personally prefer foobar2000 (it’s both good and has a very small resource usage but that isn’t really an issue anymore in this day and age)

By: Togg

Togg — Thu, 29 May 2014 14:04:14 +0000

To an extent I can understand why people would do it in certain circumstances.

It’d allow you to use two older smaller SSDs to combine their storage capacity, it could be the difference between holding all your games in one partition or having them all over the place.

There are of course the obvious downsides that if either fails your stuff is gone and in the SSD case almost no performance gain but still. It isn’t always a total waste :)

By: ArmoredCorps

ArmoredCorps — Thu, 29 May 2014 12:42:35 +0000

World of Tanks is not WORTHY of my SSD space. It used to be. No more.

By: Bomba

Bomba — Thu, 29 May 2014 09:51:45 +0000

If its only for WoT it is enough to move the packages folder to the SD/SSD. In the current patch thats around 12GB. I have a old 32GB SSD in my system, since I did this in my system the microlags were completely gone.

By: Smia

Smia — Thu, 29 May 2014 08:13:27 +0000

On older SSD this was a problem, but not anymore. This have been testet, and even if you load and delete files in a hige pace over a loong time it’s still no big effect on the memory of the SSD because the read/write cycles are much larger now than before. It’s still not as durable as a HDD, but a new SSD has no problem of 10 years of hard use. I have used SSD from the “early” days and some stil works, other dont. I got one that i bought for 5 years ago 128gb, and it’s still 128gb after hard use.

By: Apoc

Apoc — Thu, 29 May 2014 07:18:05 +0000

My ASUS motherboard came with a built in 32GB SSD intended for capturing the system state for rapid restart. Unfortunately it only supports up to 16GB RAM, so I installed WoT on it instead. It certainly ‘feels’ better (I didn’t do any rigorous analysis of FPS), but the biggest difference seems to be on battle entry. I went from entry at around 10s to go on the timer to pretty much the full 30….

By: Chad Mesiroff

Chad Mesiroff — Thu, 29 May 2014 06:38:26 +0000

OK CONFIRMED…I HAD A 64gb SSD sitting here and I didnt do anything except Copy WOT over to D drive and now I run the game from there.

Its kind of like Symbolic links except its 1 giant symbolic link.

I went from 20-28 FPS and Micro Lag often with anything ruynning in background it was death…to 34-38 FPS but holding steady and never haveing microlag if to many tanks pop up or to many autoloaders etc…..Its 34 fps no matter what. Also that was with movie in background….LOL

OMG they need to optimize game g=because this game would rock like this smoothness at full graphics like 99% of our comps could with multicore.

By: nufnuf

nufnuf — Thu, 29 May 2014 06:26:13 +0000

I am using SSDs since Intel came out with their great 80GB model. I had 128 GB crucial and now have 250 GB Kingston since then.

250GB is finally feeling “enough” for OS and several games installed. Loading times are insanely fast (5 seconds usually) (also have 16 gigs of RAM – but You dont really need that with SSD) – so You will really be amongst 1st in game.
With prices below 4000 CZK (200 USD roughly) – its a great deal, making Your work with computer way more efficient.

And dont be afraid of known “fame” that SSD cells have limited write cycles. When I sold my Intel SSD (80GB) after 2 years of intesive playing usage – it had only 2.5% of its “life” used. So under normal conditions – You have absolutely NO chance to reach those limits. Maybe in servers which run 24/7 and write to disc a lot, but definitelly not in home computer.

So my recomendation – go for combo 128 or 250 GB SSD + secondary regular HDD for downloading, movies, pictures etc .. Your computer will feel finally a lot lot faster

nufnuf