This is good to know (not the advertising guy above) I hate redownloading games.
This is good to know (not the advertising guy above) I hate redownloading games.
Well, USB 3.0 has a transfer speed of 5120 Mbit/s (or more commonly termed, 5 Gbit/s), whereas in comparison the Crucial RealSSD C300 has a read speed of 2840 Mbit/s.
Now, I don't know how that particular SSD model compares to others, but as I doubt there are SSDs with nearly twice the speed, as long as you have a slot for USB 3.0 on your computer, you shouldn't be bottlenecked by that.
That's the theoretical max for usb3, which is almost never achievable. There are SataIII SSD's which are clocked at 6Gb/s theoretical max speed, again almost never achievable. So yes, a usb 3.0 connection can bottleneck a SSD when used as an external.
Here is a link to an example drive;
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147164
Last edited by Vengfulr3ap3r; 2012-08-20 at 01:16 PM.
Interesting - however, the product you linked still has an advertised max read speed of 4160 Mbit/s, which is still lower than the USB 3.0's 5120 Mbit/s.
I'm not saying you're wrong by any stretch of the imagination, but I still think my statement holds when comparing to that product.
It Will work With any game.My ext hdd is full With 400gb With steam games :V and other mmos.
You are comparing the theoretical max, which isn't achievable, to the real world speed of that SSD. Take a look at the comment's. People have infact reached 500MB/s read speeds.
So far what i'm seeing after my last hour of researching, is that USB 3.0 cannot achieve a real world speed of 500MB/s read. If you can link me to an article, or a benchmark, or anything proving otherwise I will stand corrected. But as it stands no usb 3.0 drive can achieve 500MB/s, and as such a sataIII ssd will be limited by the USB 3.0 connection. here is a picture of a benchmark of a samsung 830 connected via a usb 3.0 external enclosure. http://i47.tinypic.com/28hhfgg.jpg taken from this thread http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1963101 as you can see the max read is less then 500MB/s proving that it does indeed bottleneck the drive.
Now if your choice is between a sataIII ssd external, and a HDD external? By all mean's go for the ssd. It will perform almost double of what the HDD would. Because a HDD would get.. maybe 100MB sustained through usb3 and the SSD would perform better, But it is still slower then if you were to connect the SSD it's self to a sata III port on your mobo, assuming you can and your mobo supports sataIII
I was actually calculating on the advertised 520MB/s read speed, so my calculations don't actually change a great deal. :P 500 MB/s = 4000 Mbit/s. Still below 5120 Mbit/s.
I can't link you anything like that, no, and that's why I can't brand my thesis as fact, or a candidate for fact. It's merely a hypothesis, a theory. Part of it has taken into account benchmarks, and there's no clear way of telling whether the limited speed in benchmarks is actually because of limitations with the USB 3.0 system. At least not in any of the benchmarks I've found, including the one you've linked.
Again, this is strictly a theory, and if it can be proven that due to a limitation with the USB 3.0 system design (and nothing else) an SSD cannot utilize its full read speed, the theory is an immediate bust. So far, though, the theory seems to hold.
One major note to this. SSD drives are relatively small in storage size (but growing) in that the largest you can buy at this time is 512GB (might be abit large now I haven't checked lately), which are fairly expensive. You can pick up a number of smaller SSD's and a standard HDD pretty cheap, then put your OS on to one SSD, your games on to another SSD, then use the standard HDD for file storage.
Okay, see. Now you've completely lost me. :P What exactly are you saying then? See I thought you were being factual, which is where my stand point comes from. What I'm saying is that usb 3's max theoretical is 5gb/s(5120Mbit/s) where as Sata III's max theoretical is 6gb/s (6144Mbit/s). Are you saying there is no way to prove that the bottle neck it's self is usb 3?
Last edited by Vengfulr3ap3r; 2012-08-21 at 01:32 PM.
Hi all ;-)
I didn't try to copy game yet but my friend tried as you suggested and copied whole gw2 directory (those 3 or so files) and when he tried to load launcher on another comp it just started downloading whole client again... Any toughts?
Also, I need to bring gw2 to office and I can't download anything huge on my comp at the office since it has only mobile usb net with some limitations so I have to bring whole game from home on external disk. If it cant be copied that would suck :-\
I don't get how to put it on your usb and then play?
can someone help me
sorry
That's terrible, charter 40mb connection here in US that downloads any MMO in under an hour. (I never pay attention to how long exactly)
I guess that's what I overpay for haha.
Put USB in, move/copy your GW2 folder to the external device (USB) and once it is done transferring you can put the USB back in on any other comp or the same one for a quick 'reinstall' by moving the file back to your program files. It can go anywhere really.
Last edited by Lazuli; 2014-01-20 at 03:50 PM.