Which hard drive do I put my games on?

[Skvadrin]

I've got two drives on my brand new computer and I haven't put any games on it yet. I've got a solid state drive with 5400rpm and a regular hard drive at 7200rpm. I don't know much about SSD drives, does it make up the difference for the lower rpm or should I just put all my games on my regular hard drive?

[nixcookies]

tbh I didn't even think it mattered.

[elira]

You know that a solid state drive is called solid because it has not a turning disc inside.
So how can your ssd have rounds per minute ?!

on topic: in general an ssd is much better for gaming because you have a lot less loading time.

[Jeenoo]

Well it kinda depends on how big your SSD drive is. i would probably put my OS and the 1-3 games i play the most on the SSD and then just fill the other HDD with other games, movies, musik etc.

[Deleted]

I've got two drives on my brand new computer and I haven't put any games on it yet. I've got a solid state drive with 5400rpm and a regular hard drive at 7200rpm. I don't know much about SSD drives, does it make up the difference for the lower rpm or should I just put all my games on my regular hard drive?

It might be litle bit strange, but SDs does not have rpm... Its solid memory. So as I see it - use SSDs for multi read with low write intensity. And if you have many small files - SSD is good for them.

Looks to me that WoW is nice candidate for SSD...

cheers
J.

[pOO flinger]

Put your games on the SSD and stuff like pictures, videos etc should go on the hard drive.

Btw Skvadrin nice avatar, gave me a good laugh

[Echohunter]

You know that a solid state drive is called solid because it has not a turning disc inside.
So how can your ssd have rounds per minute ?!

on topic: in general an ssd is much better for gaming because you have a lot less loading time.

Basically what this guy said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive << skip on down to No. 4

[Skvadrin]

oh wow I feel kinda retarded. lol! yeah I started putting my games on my ssd then

[velde046]

Put games on SSD, especially in highly populated areas or logging into the game you'll notice a huge improvement in performance. During WotLK I switched to a SSD disk and I would log into the game in Dalaran during peak hours almost instantly. Before on a regular HDD it would take around 10-15 seconds and then sluggish performance a bit until all data for environment was loaded. So games on SSD really.