Looking for some well priced upgrades...

[ollee]

Originally Posted by Bubba

How will, specifically, the SSD help me? redraws changing realms? And I read about the life of teh SSD is pretty poor, or what i read seemed that way. It was talking about memory failure rates and such and how the memory life was only a handful of charges to the Ram.

I would like to point out, right here, right now, that for everyone here, and you purposes, a SDD(appx 32gig) drive is the best thing you can do for a wow drive. You will only need ONE(1) copy of wow installed, and your load times will drop DRAMATICALLY. I won't explain it, only work from SDD testimony... it's tits kids.

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[Ualaa]

For me, I was running one folder of wow and my operating system on a 10,000 rpm Raptor drive. It was less then half full (platter drives really slow down, at or beyond 50% of capacity used). Dalaran was smooth, except at peak times, where I could lose follow with mounts at times.

Moving my wow folder to my SSD (which won't slow down as it is filled) has been a dramatic decrease in load times. Dalaran is smooth, even at prime time. And as a relatively newer drive, it supports the TRIM command (via wiper.exe), which when run periodically restores the drive to "like new" status. Over time, without TRIM, an SSD will gradually slow a bit.

I'm really thinking of picking up three more of them, and striping them into a Raid 0 array. That will be sickeningly fast. My SSD is 64gb; my Raptor drive with just the OS and WoW has 73gb of space used. Win7 is supposed to take less room then Vista, but I'm not sure if it will all fit on the 64gb. But even one extra SSD, would be 128gb, which is plenty.

[burningforce]

i want to get a SSD, but the life span is not so good for the kingstons,OCZ's,etc.. The intel drives are supposed to have a longer lifespan then the other brands. I think it is 20GB or 100GB of written data a day to the SSD for 5 years before it fails. but I can not afford a intel drive atm and the kingstons use the jmicron controller which is not that good from what i read on tech sites.

but by then new and improved SSD's will be on the market and we can get a new one (better) then the ones that are currently obtainable. But i'll hold off until jan. or feb. before I make a purchase, thats if the new nvidia cards do not come out by then

[Ualaa]

Unless you have a fairly decent (gen2) SSD, I wouldn't put the operating system on it. Too many writes, which will not be good.

If you were to get a (gen1) cheap SSD, I'd probably only put the Data folder for wow on the SSD, and run everything else from your normal drive. Just use a symlink. That way, all the random crap that constantly gets changed, is on a normal drive where that doesn't matter, while the data can be read very quickly and is only changed on patch days. That should prolong the life, quite a bit.