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What is the current opinion on using SSD drives? I started copying game segments recently and found my old Western Digital hard drives to be too slow in keeping up with the game streaming process. So I switched over to my SSD drive that is dedicated for EA games. Now I've heard that SSD drives had a lower life expectancy from all the read and writing and degrade over time. Saving game videos seem to not impact my playing much. Still running on a 60hz monitor.

Should I get another SSD drive just for videos?
 
Hey gunny, that was some good action in your vid. : ) I think as long as you leave 20% space on the SSD it has enough room to move files around ok. My little SSD is smack out of space and holding at 20% available, should be ok.
 
SSDs are getting pretty cheap these days.

If you're unsure if your Motherboard supports the M.2 form-factor, you can always get a more 'traditional' SATA SSD, which uses the same plugs as your normal, mechanical drives. They're a bit slower, but going from a mechanical to an SSD is a huge difference already. You might not even notice the difference between SATA and PCIe drives.
 
KarekCat said:
SSDs are getting pretty cheap these days.

If you're unsure if your Motherboard supports the M.2 form-factor, you can always get a more 'traditional' SATA SSD, which uses the same plugs as your normal, mechanical drives. They're a bit slower, but going from a mechanical to an SSD is a huge difference already. You might not even notice the difference between SATA and PCIe drives.
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Nice and true... Leave your SSD card for Windows and game and add a portable HD for all your videos. I have a portable 3T and holding all my knifing kills and porn, so there you go hahaha
 
Talk2dabullet said:
Nice and true... Leave your SSD card for Windows and game and add a portable HD for all your videos. I have a portable 3T and holding all my knifing kills and porn, so there you go hahaha
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WOW didnt take you as the kind of guy into snuff films.
 
I just got a 120gig SSD for $22 on ebay. This will be a standby for just videos and if I need to replace my OS hard drive someday. My current OS drive is only 90gig and I still have 15 gig left.
 
lostsantana said:
would a portable drive transfer data faster than a mechanical Hard drive?
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Good question to me it works like wonder I only use it to put all my video that I record in game play. It opens up super fast at least I am happy with it and does it's job.
 
lostsantana said:
would a portable drive transfer data faster than a mechanical Hard drive?
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The short answer is no.

The long answer is that you would be transferring data over USB, and most likely an older standard like USB 2.0 (which caps at 60MB/s). Even if you have a USB 3.0 drive (625 MB/s), there's still additional overhead from the USB controller, which'll leave real-life speeds below the SATA 3 standard (600 MB/s). With that said, 720@60/1080p@30 would have no problem over USB 2.0, so you could store your totally legit non-4K music, movies, and TV shows on it.
 
KarekCat said:
The short answer is no.

The long answer is that you would be transferring data over USB, and most likely an older standard like USB 2.0 (which caps at 60MB/s). Even if you have a USB 3.0 drive (625 MB/s), there's still additional overhead from the USB controller, which'll leave real-life speeds below the SATA 3 standard (600 MB/s). With that said, 720@60/1080p@30 would have no problem over USB 2.0, so you could store your totally legit non-4K music, movies, and TV shows on it.
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There's also e-sata cards give SATA 3 throughput to external drives.

If you thinking of large capacity HDD then research well. Don't want to lose 8TB of porn and BF4 video saves.

Check this link.
 
ok, I have one of those 10k 4TB Western digital black series for my games and a 120gb to boot Windows, but here is something that I noticed, my machine (I have 32 GB RAM / Nvidia 1080 SC) will take ages to load over the folks using SSD drives but it's only after a reboot.. my system caches somehow, and I don't know if it's in the RAM or the Video card or a little of both but that load time is only long first time then after that it's pretty instant when I launch Origin and jump in a game. Anyone else observer this behavior ?
 
Raynet11 said:
ok, I have one of those 10k 4TB Western digital black series for my games and a 120gb to boot Windows, but here is something that I noticed, my machine (I have 32 GB RAM / Nvidia 1080 SC) will take ages to load over the folks using SSD drives but it's only after a reboot.. my system caches somehow, and I don't know if it's in the RAM or the Video card or a little of both but that load time is only long first time then after that it's pretty instant when I launch Origin and jump in a game. Anyone else observer this behavior ?
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Its the HD
 
It has a 128mb cache but that's not much when were talking about loading a 2-3gb BF4 map into the video card RAM, I could see faster recall on the exe's but not sure if that little cache would help much for a game?
 
I still have drive bays and SATA ports left on my MB ... last time I bought an SSD they were selling for a $1 a GB.. times have changed a lot..
 
Raynet11 said:
I still have drive bays and SATA ports left on my MB ... last time I bought an SSD they were selling for a $1 a GB.. times have changed a lot..
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Get a SSD drive with low capacity like me and loads will be super fast. Mine is 120 gig on drive E: dedicated to just games. Before I remember after finishing loading the map I'd see folks already heading to the flags. Now I've got about 15 secs wait time.
 
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