SSD performance in WoW dissected

[burningforce]

oh ok jamiew, I think I understand.

so how many less writes does doing this create? seems like a good idea.

[JamieW]

I'm not certain the setup for WoW, since I don't play WoW. I box Rift, used to box LOTRO and DAOC. Used a similar setup for all of them, so I'd guess you could set it up for WoW.

Here's an older thread that got me started in the right direction. It discusses similar concepts for WoW.

Instead of leaving the textures/data folder in the original install directory, I just moved it to the SSD and symlinked it to all installs. As ISBoxer has improved to use virtual files for Rift, etc., the need for different directories went away, but I ended up keeping the link of the data on the SSD.