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[Harrypott]

Picked up a "G.Skill Falcon2 64M Buffer 64G" yesterday to dedicate to my wow folder. Popped it into an external caddy to copy wow to, copied wow from the WD 650gb green to it at 65mb a sec! over usb 2. The 650gb hard disk isn't too bad a disk either.

Shut down pc, pulled out the 650gb, popped in the SD and proceeded to try out wow.

I run 3 wow instances on that machine and it now loads a million times quicker, I don't think twice about hearthing back to Dal anymore. It used to churn away for some time before, now they are loaded up faster than if I'd hearth to IF etc. Dal would run semi slow because of the extra hard disk activity so it's not too bad there now.

Instances load much better etc too.

I had a fair idea it was my biggest bottleneck for me so very happy with the faster loads and not getting random slowness while the hard disk churns away.

W7 is still running on a 650gb WD black, will have to change that to a SD when I upgrade next to go from W7 32bit to 64bit.

[Nisch]

Yeah, SSD's are the single most cost effective upgrade to my system so far.

[Kalyse]

I'm going to buy the 275 read / 275 write SSD at the end of this month. I can't remember which one it is called.

I did do a lot of research and only really found two which seem good.
I just did a full upgrade for 1.4k and couldn't afford to add the SSD at that time. Glad to see you saw improvements!

You should have done benchmarks before.
I'm hoping to move my windows onto it too, but I'm not sure how I can do that. I was going to look at Acronis

[Kalyse]

OCZ Vertex 2E.
Thats the one.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/225416

Imho, thats the best one on the market at the moment.

Either that orthe corsair C5 which has 350 read but only 80 or so write.

[dozigden]

I just popped an Intel X25-V into my machine yesterday and even a fairly budget SSD like that has made the world of difference to my experience.

[valle2000]

I think any SSD will improve performance. At least if you're 5-boxing, since ordinary hard drives gets a huge work load when all WoWs at the same time needs to load data. I have two SSD and I love them, one for my OS and one for my WoW. It greatly improves Windows performance as well.

[Kalyse]

I'd like to know what the actual benchmark improvement would be, but I don't understand what the scores actually mean when running say 3d vantage.

[Harrypott]

My old computer would load instances first... 2 instances of wow, and my main machine would load 5+ seconds after it... (3 instances of wow). now my new computer seems fast and my old computer is 5+ seconds after it. Can't say I did any benchmarks before / after beyond noticing it go faster. As with any upgrade your mileage will vary depends on your current setup. I'm not sure I've seen a post on here of anyone who didn't love a SSD once they got it though.

[Coolit]

I've got a pair of Crosair performance SSD's in raid 0 and they really are brilliant, even with 5 clients running Dalaran loads instantly. One of the best purchases I've made in a long time.

[drevil]

or go for a PCIE-SSD-Raid card for real speed ;-)