Ssd

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Hey guys,
im going to upgrade my harddrive to ssd.
i dont know much about disks, so id like to hear what u guys use/would recommend me to buy, my current one have 5.3 rating in windows
but its actually a intern disk 2,5"

- Fadez

[Lotena]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...trim,2705.html

Google is a mysterious creature.

[Dunefire]

I think that they were asking for opinions about hardware from fellow forum posters as some of the reviews on alot of sites are planted there to sell units.

[Scyzek]

I wouldn't worry too much about the WEI (Windows Experience Index), The HDD is very rarely a bottleneck for most gaming systems. It's usually a GPU or CPU (and sometimes ram) that will give you performance upgrades. My HDD is a 5.9 and I could care less if they said its a 1.0.

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I wouldn't worry too much about the WEI (Windows Experience Index), The HDD is very rarely a bottleneck for most gaming systems. It's usually a GPU or CPU (and sometimes ram) that will give you performance upgrades. My HDD is a 5.9 and I could care less if they said its a 1.0.

You would because your loadings would take over 5 minutes, and it would take over 10mins to get Orgrimmar/Stormwind fully loaded with all the models running around.

[BicycleMafioso]

I wouldn't worry too much about the WEI (Windows Experience Index), The HDD is very rarely a bottleneck for most gaming systems. It's usually a GPU or CPU (and sometimes ram) that will give you performance upgrades. My HDD is a 5.9 and I could care less if they said its a 1.0.

I disagree about your sentiments (although SSD vs non-SSD can be argued back and forth) about HDD not being a bottleneck.
HDD is very often a bottleneck, I'd say. People buying a fast computer and then recycling an old HDD with (for reference) <5.0 in the WEI as you called it.
A fast computer with slow loadtimes will be a slow computer, in my opinion.

My SSD gives me 7.8/7.9 in WEI, with 7.5 on my CPU being the lowest. (Overclocked i5-760 -> 3.8GHz)
WEI matters little in itself, however, but it's a good reference-point if you have nothing better

[Samurai]

I have an i7 920 with 6GB of DDR3

I used a HDD for windows and wow, changed to an SSD and it made a MASSIVE MASSIVE difference. Same hardware otherwise, load times improved massively, not just for wow, but for games on other harddrives.
My steam folder is still on a HDD.

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I disagree about your sentiments (although SSD vs non-SSD can be argued back and forth) about HDD not being a bottleneck.
HDD is very often a bottleneck, I'd say. People buying a fast computer and then recycling an old HDD with (for reference) <5.0 in the WEI as you called it.
A fast computer with slow loadtimes will be a slow computer, in my opinion.

My SSD gives me 7.8/7.9 in WEI, with 7.5 on my CPU being the lowest. (Overclocked i5-760 -> 3.8k GHz)
WEI matters little in itself, however, but it's a good reference-point if you have nothing better

3800 GHz? That's 3 800 000 MHz, nice PC bro.
Seriously now, indeed the HDD is quite a crucial part for a "fast" pc. Sure, a PC with a superprocessor will calculate shit fast as hell, but it'll feel sluggish because everything takes ages to load up.

[BicycleMafioso]

3800 GHz? That's 3 800 000 MHz, nice PC bro.
Seriously now, indeed the HDD is quite a crucial part for a "fast" pc. Sure, a PC with a superprocessor will calculate shit fast as hell, but it'll feel sluggish because everything takes ages to load up.

Mah bad. I thought of i5-2500k at the same time, and it's hard to separate two thoughts :P Fixing.

[Fierae]

In fact, a hard drive is actually quite often THE bottleneck of a high end PC. I've taken too long to get another SSD, but I'll have one in a few weeks. The difference is most definately measureable.

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HDD is most definately a bottleneck.. Other components often have to wait to be fed. The transfer rates pv 70-70 (average, guessing) MB /s and seek times of 7-10 ms comes no where near the bandwidth etc. of other components. Basically, people accept the fact that they have to wait for the disk. If they wait for the CPU (which happens when theres no free CPU time), it's inacceptable

It's basically a question whether or not you can tolerate waiting for something and how much you're willing to pay. Sure, you can get well performing rotating disks and maybe put them in an array. You will always have less performance on random IOs in comparison to SSDs tho. So, I guess it's just a budget thing.

@ OP, I currently have 2 Intel x25m installed - the second generation is pretty good as well. Even though I haven't used them, if I was looking for a SSD now, I would probably get an OCZ vertex 2 or agility 2. They have a bit higher read / write performance (not that writing makes that much of a difference - you need a source that can give you that speed as well), for a pretty decent price (about 200 Euros for the 100 GB version)

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AMD Phenom(tm) II x6 1055T Processor 2.80GHz (not clocked)
ATI Radeon HD 5850 Graphic card
8GB ram

The computer is almost new, but all kind of loading goes slow.
im wondering if fps drop when im in trade disctrict or so can be the problem of my disk?

- Fadez

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AMD Phenom(tm) II x6 1055T Processor 2.80GHz (not clocked)
ATI Radeon HD 5850 Graphic card
8GB ram

The computer is almost new, but all kind of loading goes slow.
im wondering if fps drop when im in trade disctrict or so can be the problem of my disk?

- Fadez

What kind of FPS drop are we talking about here? Because everyone has FPS drops in Org/SW

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Dropping down to about 30, my friend have almost the same setup as me but he is running it smoothly still if there is many people around...
i guess its my disk that need a upgrade?

[BicycleMafioso]

Dropping down to about 30, my friend have almost the same setup as me but he is running it smoothly still if there is many people around...
i guess its my disk that need a upgrade?

No. SSDs will not increase your FPS. Sorry. Lower shadows.

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and my screen is like, freezing when i inspect ppl

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and my screen is like, freezing when i inspect ppl

Yeah the inspect window is very graphicly intense.
It's just server lag -.-'

[Kagonpeak]

Have you tried enabling DirectX11? The HD 5850 is a DirectX11 card

[Asera]

Massive performance gains from SSD's, this concept continues to elude me entirely. -_-

Wait for the 500mb/s drives that actually might make a cost effective difference.

[Lotena]

I think that they were asking for opinions about hardware from fellow forum posters as some of the reviews on alot of sites are planted there to sell units.

Okay, so how would you suggest doing research? Tomshardware and HardOCP have both been reliable and benchmarks are trustworthy from my own personal experience. If you are going to claim everything there is a plant you might as well buy every piece of hardware on the market and test it yourself.