Seperate SSD for games?

[damienloh]

Read that SSD deteriorate with frequent read/ write.
Do we need to install games on a separate SSD?

i.e. 1 SSD for Windows and software and 1 SSD for games.

 

[FinalTidus]

Read that SSD deteriorate with frequent read/ write.
Do we need to install games on a separate SSD?

i.e. 1 SSD for Windows and software and 1 SSD for games.

Then both SSD also deteriorate.

 

[enenyi]

Read that SSD deteriorate with frequent read/ write.
Do we need to install games on a separate SSD?

i.e. 1 SSD for Windows and software and 1 SSD for games.

If u have the money, y not?

Else, nope, SSD will not degrade so fast. Even if it degrades, it will take a lot longer than u think for u to feel the tangible loss in read/write speeds. Unless u r those kind that write 1TB of data into the SSD per day.

 

[Krabs.]

game write the data once then keep reading ?
read no lifetime countdown ... only write

anyway I'm low on ram now with my multitasking , hopefully when I fresh install on sdd can help a little
I see system resource it is constantly writing about 700kb/s on the hdd as cache because not enough ram .... if it continue like that on SDD it will degrade like maybe 5% useful life over 2 months before I build new rig

 

[alifffresto]

game write the data once then keep reading ?
read no lifetime countdown ... only write

anyway I'm low on ram now with my multitasking , hopefully when I fresh install on sdd can help a little
I see system resource it is constantly writing about 700kb/s on the hdd as cache because not enough ram .... if it continue like that on SDD it will degrade like maybe 5% useful life over 2 months before I build new rig

Move cache to ramdisk for u sir? But really, it will take along time before ur ssd is dead in terms on r/w...

 

[Kennedy]

so SSD best for windows and softwares only, and the videos, music, photos and the rest best in the HDD ?

 

[MoneyFace =p]

Most people get secondary SSD for games when they ran out of space in their primary OS SSD.

 

[mib500]

so SSD best for windows and softwares only, and the videos, music, photos and the rest best in the HDD ?

All my games at SSD... advantage only loading will be much faster compare to HDD especially games like BF4..

 

[enenyi]

so SSD best for windows and softwares only, and the videos, music, photos and the rest best in the HDD ?

SSD and HDD serve the same purpose of storage. It's just that it makes more sense to store ur music, photos, other non frequently accessed files in HDD. Frequently accessed files like OS files and application files best to out in SSD to take advantage of much faster read/write speeds.

For games, it depends. Do note that some games can go up to 40GB in size. So it's a tradeoff between capacity and performance. How many games can u store in ur SSD? If u move other games to HDD, r u able to live with the slower game load times?

 

[Aymanhero]

I put my Dota 2 in my ssd. Load fast with my fast Internet also have to wait for 9 other people roflmao

 

[damienloh]

So it is not necessary to have 2 SSD.
Is 250GB SSD enough for Windows and games?

 

[enenyi]

So it is not necessary to have 2 SSD.
Is 250GB SSD enough for Windows and games?

U have to decide for yourself.

Your Windows 7 Home 64-bit is 16GB in OS files. Add some bloatware (yes, Windows 7 has a lot of accompanying bloatware), u may be staring at 55GB worth of OS files. So u have about 180GB of space left in a 250GB SSD (238GB usable space). How many games do u have and how big are their files? Can they fit into 180GB of space on the SSD?

 

[muddle]

So it is not necessary to have 2 SSD.
Is 250GB SSD enough for Windows and games?

Like what other said, it depends on your usage. For me, my games drive is 500gb. And it's nearly full.

Gta 5, skyrim, dragon age 3, project cars, etc are huge disk gobblers

 

[Godeau]

So it is not necessary to have 2 SSD.
Is 250GB SSD enough for Windows and games?

Depends on the games that you have, there are some games that on its own take up 80GB.

I currently use a seperate 500GB ssd for my steam games, and I already managed to use more than half of its capacity. Back couple of years ago, used to have only a 250GB for os and games, and I find myself constantly uninstallating old games. It's feasible though.