Made a huge difference for us and I highly recommend this to improve your gaming experience. I honestly wish I had made this change long before.
Some friends told me that just will make open the game faster and that i'll not see some real difference while playing, but seens that they'r wrong.
Thanks :)
I picked up an SSD early last year and have not looked back.
The game is certainly better and the system does not seem to work as much waiting on the HD for info.
I am thinking about doing 4 of these in a Raid 10 formation but that would be in my next big desktop..
bottom line, buys you a lot of life with your current computer. Us Acronis True image to image your current drive to the SSD thru your USB port and your time to live is down to just an hour or so, depending on the amount of data you have.
If you have a Sata III SSD and a cheap DDR5 gpu you can make miracles..i dont understand what is the problem here.Dont forget SSHD have a limited lifetime and to get a good one(good lifetime and speeds) you need to pay more than 170-200$
I don't like the idea of HDD+SSD in one device, because it needs more "control". You need to install system on SSD part, put game on SSD part too. But all other things(such as pics, movies, temp files preferably) - you need to keep on HDD part. And i don't know, how this separation is organized on program basis (how exactly system differs the areas of the discs, and what software u need to work with and SHDD).
For me its easier to have SSD and HDD separately. SSD for system and games, HDD for data.
Got my 1st SSD about 1yr ago, was a SATA2 and was still amazing. Now, i gave my olf i7 930 with that SSD to my wife and bought myself a new PC.
I now have a i7 373k OC at 4.5 with a Samsung Pro SSD drive SATA3.
I love it. Does a difference in game but not that huge... But just the fact it takes me less than 30 sec to boot my PC, its well worth the price of it... Not counting other apps that are faster if files are on the SSD...
Prices are going down a lot so I really recommand it!
SSD is great for sysem disk as well as L2 folder. I do (motherboard a.k.a. software) raid 0 setup on almost all my computers since MBs supported it but difference is noticeable. Do not expect miracles when loading Windows or game itself, it loads faster but there are still things that do not matter on HDD (checking and recognizing hardware, acquiring IP addresses, waiting on L2 updater, waiting on GG to do ... something). Huge difference is in those tiny little things that you are used to do and hear spinning rust HDD crunching - now it opens or loads in an instant giving system the feel of speed. Firefox opens in split of a second or teleport to another town takes 3 seconds not 30.
BTW you do not need to move swap and/or temp files into spinning rust in order to preserve your SSD. In fact those cells in overall capacity have enough write cycles that your SSD will be morally old or dies on completely different reason like firmware or electronic *cough*ROHS*cough. You do need to do some changes to the system, but since Windows 7 MS OSes are smart enough to detect SSD and do most of necessary changes for you when installing OS. Other manual tweakings are easily google-able.
What you need to have, though, is good backup strategy. Because SSDs do not die slowly spitting errors and giving warnings like HDDs, but rather in one glorious atomic explosion - one second they are there, another second it's just piece of metal in your computer. Back your most important data up to another drive, external drive, NAS or cloud service. Get good grasp on what you really want to back up - you do not need to put into Amazon cloud drive your whole movie library or Steam folder when those are more or less easily (legally) downloadable from internet. System can be reinstalled. In fact good choice to migrate user profile and folders on another drive due to this fact.