Dual Drives

[ETLLoos72]

So i enjoy gaming but don't have the $ to invest in 1 of the new Intel SSD's that were reviewed extremely well on this site, so i was wondering, would it be noticeably better for me to purchase a small lower quality SSD write games to it, and use it strictly for gaming, while still using my regular HD for my OS and other normal computing functions? and would this be comprable to the Intel drives since i have a very specific and limited usage for the drive?

The games i'm interested in running are generally First person shooter games, specifically the Call of Duty Series.

 

[Denithor]

If you read the SSD review on the main site you'll see that nearly all MLC SSD drives use the crappy JMicron controller and suffer from slow random writes (which will hang your system for seconds at a time while doing routine tasks, like browsing the web).

Short answer: don't bother until the new controllers are released early next year.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I don't know that for gaming the SSD drives will be THAT much of a difference. It doesn't seem like it'd be worth the cost in the main scheme of things.

 

[Denithor]

From what I've seen, the SSDs help general performance (Windows has a much more "snappy" feel to it) and will help disk intensive apps. Games however mostly just gain faster load times and not much else (not very disk intensive, once the textures etc are loaded into memory there's not much disk access).

 

[Old Hippie]

Originally posted by: Denithor

Short answer: don't bother until the new controllers are released early next year.

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