I'd say hard drive access is the most discussed topic on the dual-boxing hardware forum. More than RAM, processor type, MB, and video card. You have many people claiming that the SSD has helped both their load screen times (from 30+ seconds with 5 toons in Dalaran to 2 seconds) as well as general game play (new textures, especially in highly populated areas, are being read in all the time while you move and other things move towards you). Between discussions of RAID0, SSDs in RAID, hard drive access, etc, I think you are definitely in the minority on thinking harddrive access time has little to do with multiboxing. After having enough RAM, many would say an SSD is the best upgrade your system can make.Originally Posted by d0z3rr
The only time SSD would benefit you in WoW is for the loading screens. That is it. How many loading screens do you usually see while playing WoW that bother you? For me: None.
WoW is not disk intensive by any means, and the standard 7200 rpm drives on today's markets are more than enough.
There are tons of files the OS is accessing at any given time in it's various folders (a major one being system32, or syswow64). The OS will benefit from the zero latency of SSD's, not to mention boot way faster and patch much faster.
But what do I know? Go ahead and do the SSD, it's your computer and money
How often do you boot your machine in comparison to how often do you see a load screen for WoW? I use my computer to primarily play video games so that question is very easy for me - I'd much rather wait an extra 15 seconds for my computer to boot using the 7200 drive and have my WoW loading screen be near instant. WoW is somewhat intensive on accessing the harddrive, but nothing big. A single player wouldn't really need an SSD. However, a 5 boxer will see a huge performance increase from moving from a single 7200 drive to even a slow SSD.
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