Are you using an SSD or SATA HDD (Gaming)

[Yukicore]

So yeah. But now I am thinking I created this @ the wrong section, didn't I? But most Gamers hang out in this section anyway.

 

[SickBeast]

Why not create a poll?

I have most of my games on SSD.

 

[Yukicore]

I just did, I messed up a bit when creating the post, sorry.

 

[SickBeast]

No prob.

I think SSDs are cheap enough now that most people can go with them for gaming. I've seen them as low as 35c/gb.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

240GB SanDisk Extreme - OS (80GB) + Games (~155GB - mapped to folder on 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3)
1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 - general data storage, VMs

 

[MrK6]

Wrong forum? Anywho, bought my 160GB G2 in 2009 and haven't regretted it. Load times are amazing compared to any HDD.

 

[AdamK47]

Both

 

[hokies83]

I have 7 Sandisk Extreme 240GB SSDs

 

[Arkaign]

OCZ Vertex 4 256GB Boot/Win7ProX64/Games/Apps
WD Black 2TB Storage/Media/Downloads/Docs/etc
~8TB between Gbit NAS and a couple 1TB Externals for redundancy/sharing/transport

 

[thilanliyan]

I am going to continue to use an HDD for a while...these WD Black drives are good enough...and I don't care so much that a game level loads quicker. Until size, reliability, and prices of SSDs approaches HDDs, I will not buy.

 

[tviceman]

I use both and use steammover to have my most frequently played games on the SSD.

EDIT: The latest beta of steam now gives you a box to install the game to a different directory, but steammover still makes the most sense for me since I do not have a huge SSD, and therefore would not want to completely uninstall games from my system instead of just switching them back in forth between the SSD and HDD.

 

[blackened23]

Both. I have a ton of games, some of which are on a 1GB WD velociraptor, and the rest on SSD. Some games benefit more from SSD than others, I usually keep WoW and some other MMOs on SSD. They tend to benefit the most from the faster read times.

I've tried some other games on SSD which seemingly don't benefit much at all. For instance, crysis 2 loadtimes aren't very much different from the 1gb WD drive to SSD, which is very odd. I expected a substantial improvement..

 

[lkailburn]

Switching both my desktop and laptop to SSDs was the best bang for the buck upgrade I've done. When back to back testing I didn't test gaming but app loading, I/O, even just boot up and login speeds were fantastic on SSD.

-Luke

 

[fffblackmage]

All but one game is on a Samsung F4EG. Starcraft 2 didn't ask me where to install the game, so it just helped itself to my precious SSD space.

 

[BFG10K]

Moved to Memory & Storage, Super Moderator BFG10K.

 

[BFG10K]

All of my games sit on my 1TB VelociRaptor. It’s a great gaming drive. :thumbsup:

 

[DominionSeraph]

Everything on an 80GB spindle.

 

[Sable]

Steam folder on Samsung 830 SSD, other games on 1TB WD Caviar Black.

 

[Yukicore]

Wow, so many people are using SSD's, I should get one for myself, but does it improve gaming performance, other than loading screen times?

 

[n7]

All my PCs i actually use have SSDs for the OS, and my main system has three SSDs + five HDDs. All games are on the SSDs.

 

[fffblackmage]

Wow, so many people are using SSD's, I should get one for myself, but does it improve gaming performance, other than loading screen times?

It's mostly just better load times. Some games do load while in-game, like Oblivion/Skyrim and WoW, so an SSD would help there. I remember playing Oblivion and it was running off an older HDD. Some high-res textures just took a couple extra seconds to load.

 

[atomheart]

180gb intel 520 SSD for my OS, origin, and autoCAD. Everything else on a 1tb Western digital HDD.

 

[tweakboy]

Everything on SSD. I have 16 games installed, and my DAW ,, I still have 140GB free

 

[tweakboy]

NOTE: I dont have max payne 3 installed yet....that takes 25GB I just might put MP3 on one of my drives in the cage.