I bought a top-of-the-line SSD, the Samsung 840 series, and surely enough the synthetic benchmarks showed it was many times faster than my 7200 rpm HDD. Huge speeds, 5 times faster in sequential tests, about ten times faster in 512k tests, and exponentially faster in 4k tests. I got the same results that I was supposed to get.
But when it came down to real world performance, such as the time it took to load a game, the MAX gain was hardly 50%, meaning in some games it would load 1.5 times faster than the HDD, and in some others there's no gain at all. I compared my load times with others found on youtube, and they were the same.
But load times were never really a concern to me, what I bought the SSD for was to eliminate the loading stutter/hiccups/hitching in games where data is streamed while playing rather than being fully loaded into RAM in the pre-game loading screen. And there was not a single improvement over the HDD. The load stutter was still there, and I checked and double checked drive usage during these periods and the SSD would send data at the same speed the HDD did.
Certainly the internet is full of garbage, and it is unfortunately there my decision to buy an SSD was made. You would read people saying:
"Mmmm... my SSD is so lightning fast! I don't know how I lived without it! Everything is so much more responsive!" (note the use of the word "responsive" in a vague manner without explaining what is precisely meant by it).
"Yes after using the SSD everything in Skyrim became butter smooth! No more load hiccups! I can't believe I used to play Skyrim without an SSD! You should try it!" (and no visual proof of this is given)
"I used to wait 10 minutes for my Call of Duty game to load, now it loads in only like 2 seconds!" (and no visual proof of this is given)
I think SSD's are like the Emperor's new clothes, either they are not what they claim to be, or all programmers and game developers place some restrictions to prevent you from taking advantage of your SSD. Either way, SSD's are not worth the money.
But when it came down to real world performance, such as the time it took to load a game, the MAX gain was hardly 50%, meaning in some games it would load 1.5 times faster than the HDD, and in some others there's no gain at all. I compared my load times with others found on youtube, and they were the same.
But load times were never really a concern to me, what I bought the SSD for was to eliminate the loading stutter/hiccups/hitching in games where data is streamed while playing rather than being fully loaded into RAM in the pre-game loading screen. And there was not a single improvement over the HDD. The load stutter was still there, and I checked and double checked drive usage during these periods and the SSD would send data at the same speed the HDD did.
Certainly the internet is full of garbage, and it is unfortunately there my decision to buy an SSD was made. You would read people saying:
"Mmmm... my SSD is so lightning fast! I don't know how I lived without it! Everything is so much more responsive!" (note the use of the word "responsive" in a vague manner without explaining what is precisely meant by it).
"Yes after using the SSD everything in Skyrim became butter smooth! No more load hiccups! I can't believe I used to play Skyrim without an SSD! You should try it!" (and no visual proof of this is given)
"I used to wait 10 minutes for my Call of Duty game to load, now it loads in only like 2 seconds!" (and no visual proof of this is given)
I think SSD's are like the Emperor's new clothes, either they are not what they claim to be, or all programmers and game developers place some restrictions to prevent you from taking advantage of your SSD. Either way, SSD's are not worth the money.
are you being serious?
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