Quote Originally Posted by Zub View Post
ok trying to understand the debate on SSD:

from what i understand, a solid state drive will allow you to load files from the disk into memory much quicker than a normal drive.
while playing wow:
- what needs to be loaded from the OS ? (hum, not sure. nothing? everything should already be in memory when you start playing),
- what needs to be loaded from WOW folders ? (textures, loading zones, pretty much everything when moving or when players come and go)

so from the above, i would tend to think that Owltoid is right, and that having WoW on SSD is more beneficial than having the OS on SSD. (at least , when playing wow)

does that make sense?
Yes. In addition to that... SSD's have more of a limit to how many times they can be written to than platter drives do. I'm just going to take a big educated guess but I can see your system drive being written to on a constant basis, essentially burning out your SSD quicker than if you were just play WoW off of it.