Solid State Drives (SSDs) and WoW Muliboxing

[Sam DeathWalker]

Great ssd but.... if you have enough ram on your mother board and enough video ram on you CG, you dont need at all.

I test myself and i saw a huge difference between 512/1024 MB graphic card ( sapphir 4870x 512MB versus msi gtx 285 1GB) with i7+12GB RAM than my X4 ssd hardware raid 0 ( adaptec 2405 ) versus one velociraptor 300GB

This has my vote, based upon how wow loads textures and how textures cause "texture lag".

[Owltoid]

I see no lag in my system, and Dalaran, WG, and AV load up in about 1-3 seconds on 5 clients (often 1 second). Although a RAM drive may be the future, an SSD is all you need for 5 boxing currently. I don't have symlinking, multiple installs, or anything like that, and I use the "cheap" RiData 32GB MLC drive.

If you have enough cores, RAM, and video card, then just get a small SSD and your lag problems will be non-existant.

[Multibocks]

When you install this drive, how easy is it to transfer the OS? Say vista64?

[BobGnarly]

I have an SSD drive. It's OK, but honestly, I didn't notice much difference. I think a well tuned system with a solid HD (velociraptors) will perform very close. Having enough RAM is the key to not making the HD a factor.

What I'm planning to do is get another 12G of RAM and just load wow into a RAM drive. I actually don't think this will matter that much, but 12G is pretty cheap, so what the hell.