May 18, 1997 · HDD vs. SSD Real World Gaming Performance - We've upgraded all our video card test systems to SSDs recently. But does it actually make a difference in real world …

Dec 8, 2019 · OS on the fastest Drive For games, the only improvement is load time. Personally: OS on fastest drive, Games on a 2TB 7200RPM Drive mainly. If it is a new game I intend to …

Dec 26, 2017 · WD Black drives are still some of the fastest mechanical drives, but no, they don't even come close to any SSD for gaming. If you are going to go with a big mechanical drive, at …

Feb 14, 2022 · Back when NVMe SSD's just started coming out, there wasn't much real-world performance improvement from their use compared to SATA SSD's. Has that changed …

Jul 16, 2023 · A lot of this would have been somewhat true at the time people were buying 120-180gig ssd, the lifetime issue of writing on ssd harddrive diminished a lot and has they get …

Oct 3, 2002 · Just finishing up my new rig and am contemplating the idea of running two 240GB Samsung 850 Evo SSD in Raid 0. The only thing I plan to install on these drives is the main …

Jan 14, 2023 · Needed ? Your average good sata ssd should do would be my guess. But that only a guess. Is the question how fast would it be needed for it to be impossible to see any …

Mar 5, 2015 · What's the difference between a HDD with 5900 RPMs vs 7200 RPMs? Basically, my question is this. I've read somewhere that based n your connection interface, whether it's …

Jan 30, 2020 · An OS or app is generally a lot of smaller library files and such, and the substantially decreased latency and access times of a SSD over a HDD are far more important …

Nov 9, 2015 · A SSD will do everything just as well if not better. Copying to an external drive will depend on the external drive. Almost any spinner external drive will write slower than modern …