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drillerman -> Solid State Drive (6/27/2013 2:29:04 PM)

Don't think this thread should be in the Tech forum, if it should please move. Sorry Erik.[&:]

Anyway, just bought an Alienware M17X with a Radeon 7990 card and upgraded with a Samsung 250GB SSD. When playing DW I would always get lag in game with menus loading etc. but with the upgraded SSD it albeit disappears. Windows start up is blisteringly fast and lag is now a thing of the past.
If anyone is thinking of upgrading anything on their PC, put an SSD in as your primary drive.
WOW!!![&o][&o]

Although I'm sure most of you know this already![:)]



scotten_usa -> RE: Solid State Drive (6/27/2013 2:43:37 PM)

I saw elsewhere on this forum that their DW took 70 seconds to load. I timed my SSD system (my drive is 1.5 years old) and it took 53 seconds. Huzzah!



dostillevi -> RE: Solid State Drive (6/27/2013 4:57:43 PM)

I once loaded all of distant worlds to a ram drive (uses your computer's memory as if it were hard drive storage) and didn't get any significant benefits. Maybe I would now with the new performance improvements.



Ardryn -> RE: Solid State Drive (6/28/2013 12:04:58 AM)

Just be aware that SSDs have a fairly high death-rate, and defraging tends to shorten their expected lifetime, don't put anything important on them you aren't ready to lose, like Windows.



Gargoyl -> RE: Solid State Drive (6/28/2013 12:46:47 AM)

SSD are MORE reliable than HD and aren't defragged at all as they don't store memory in the same way.

http://www.auslogics.com/en/turbo-windows/ssd-vs-hard-drive/

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404258,00.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Quality_and_performance



Ardryn -> RE: Solid State Drive (6/28/2013 7:37:27 PM)

Well, it all, obviously, comes down to buying from a quality-minded manufacturer. Both SSDs and HDs can fail, I guess I'm more leary of SSDs because I recently had one fail completely on me, while the HD I bought at the same time is still going fine, and it happened to have Windows on it.



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