Solid State Harddrive.

[Turenn]

Does anyone have any experience using a SSD?

How significant were the improvements?

Would you put a windows install on it or just WoW?

Seeing as I have a normal Desktop pc and my harddrives are 3.5" and most of the SSD's on the market at the moment is 2.5" can I still fit one of the 2.5" in my PC?

God I wished I kept up on the hardware front, I'm such a noob, any advice would be great.

[wowphreak]

1) sure :P

2) depends on a variety of factors :P

3) they are intended to be like normal hard drives

4) yup just need the right bracket to fit it in yer case

[not5150]

You know what... there's been WAY too many SSD questions lately. I'm going to write a FAQ

[algol]

You know what... there's been WAY too many SSD questions lately. I'm going to write a FAQ

Already plenty of info along those lines here if people would SEARCH first.

But if you have more to contribute, please do. Slap all the stuff about symlinking and "Q6600 + 8GB then worry about SSDs" on the wiki, if it hasn't already been done as well.

[Carnage]

Already plenty of info along those lines here if people would SEARCH first.

But if you have more to contribute, please do. Slap all the stuff about symlinking and "Q6600 + 8GB then worry about SSDs" on the wiki, if it hasn't already been done as well.

Everyone likes to be reassured that there not about to waste £100 of there money on something that wont increase performance (not reffering to SSD), i recently bought a SSD and a extra 4GB ram to make a total of 8GB. Although it has been chaos trying to get it all to work, the SSD works fine and was just a 15 minute setup. Trying to install windows vista was the chaos, if i try to run the install with 8GB ram it BSOD, 4GB - BSOD, 2gb it will install - slowly. Then when i finish install i put in the other sticks of ram, BSOD - omg please someone shoot me in the head. Each ram stick is 100% working, anyways back on to the topic at hand, I eventually gave up for now (ill be back) on setting up windows vista and went back to windows xp 32bit.

Then installed the SSD without a problem, windows detected it straight away. Using a program i found here to make symbolic linking easy i then linked my data folder, cache folder and tryed to do a wierd link with my WTF folder to make it so all the charecters copy there data / saved variables from the main. It worked good except for things like bartender4 which just kept reseting

So logged into game and was shocked!, i could acctually run around shattrath and it was playable! although it did freeze when you just jump down into the center of shattrath. In classic WoW areas such as burning steppes, blasted lands i was getting fps of around 40-50 and i was no longer stuttering / freezing. My fps used to stay around 10-25 and constantly freeze and stick.

[eqjoe]

I have found that I get better overall gaming performance out my my 150G 10k RPM WD Raptor than my 64G Trancend SSD.

-j

[zha]

I found the OCZ 32GB ones for $109 after rebate. What I found.

• WAAAAY faster in cities and loading. I used to studder in cities with my 3 instances on PC, not anymore.
• Following rarely breaks now... used to be a major problem when loading new textures and I would hit hte studdering.
• Loading seems up to 25% faster.
• No Sound
• very little heat
• Power bill is reduced by about $2 a month

It's a smaller size, the drive is very small actually. I just used 3M's heavy duty 2 sided tape from Home Depot and stuck it to wherever I wanted... plugs into standard SATA, compatable with all 3 machines (different MB's in each). Was basically plug and play.

I highly recommend OCZ SSD or wait for the cheap 250gb ones Samsung announced should be available early next year. I will get rid of all my non SSD drives when those come out... no sound and energy savings alone is worth it to me, but the speed... just unmatched.

It's expensive, but if you can afford it, why not?

[Golle]

OCZ Core 64GB MLC SSD Review.. (Testing in progress..)

[Thedonsquad]

Already plenty of info along those lines here if people would SEARCH first.

But if you have more to contribute, please do. Slap all the stuff about symlinking and "Q6600 + 8GB then worry about SSDs" on the wiki, if it hasn't already been done as well.

Everyone likes to be reassured that there not about to waste £100 of there money on something that wont increase performance (not reffering to SSD), i recently bought a SSD and a extra 4GB ram to make a total of 8GB. Although it has been chaos trying to get it all to work, the SSD works fine and was just a 15 minute setup. Trying to install windows vista was the chaos, if i try to run the install with 8GB ram it BSOD, 4GB - BSOD, 2gb it will install - slowly. Then when i finish install i put in the other sticks of ram, BSOD - omg please someone shoot me in the head. Each ram stick is 100% working, anyways back on to the topic at hand, I eventually gave up for now (ill be back) on setting up windows vista and went back to windows xp 32bit.

Then installed the SSD without a problem, windows detected it straight away. Using a program i found here to make symbolic linking easy i then linked my data folder, cache folder and tryed to do a wierd link with my WTF folder to make it so all the charecters copy there data / saved variables from the main. It worked good except for things like bartender4 which just kept reseting

So logged into game and was shocked!, i could acctually run around shattrath and it was playable! although it did freeze when you just jump down into the center of shattrath. In classic WoW areas such as burning steppes, blasted lands i was getting fps of around 40-50 and i was no longer stuttering / freezing. My fps used to stay around 10-25 and constantly freeze and stick.