SSD vs. HDD?

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DrakeDragon on 04/25/2012, 02:31 PM - view
just go with a hybrid, cheaper then most high-end HHD, and SSDs

faster then all HHD, not as fast as SSD but still good.

for the price of the hybrids, very worth it.


I second this. Hybrids are cheaper and in my experience just as fast.
You will get way less loading as mentioned above!
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I can confirm that the load times are nearly identical between an SSD and an HDD. I played the closed beta on my spare internal 7200rpm hard drive, and the load times were maaybe 3-4 seconds.

Now with it installed on my ssd, the load times are.... well, 2-3 seconds?

So not much difference.
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Loading times are really fast and you load all the NPCs and players instantly in crowded areas, well worth it
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Actually, SSD loads faster yes, but the change is unoticable in TERA and others games like that, since HDD can run them fine.

The difference though, if you have less RAM on your PC, you'll use the Pagefile.sys on your SSD, which is better by FAR than an HDD.

Other than that, SSD do not increase the FPS of non enormous loading games
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pepsimaxofborg on 04/25/2012, 03:14 PM - view
DrakeDragon on 04/25/2012, 02:31 PM
just go with a hybrid, cheaper then most high-end HHD, and SSDs

faster then all HHD, not as fast as SSD but still good.

for the price of the hybrids, very worth it.


I second this. Hybrids are cheaper and in my experience just as fast.
You will get way less loading as mentioned above!


ya, and they are 80% faster then hhd's

for $140 it is well worth for the space and speed.
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The difference is night and day provided you're not bottlenecking somewhere else.

I got this last friday http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233191 and my load times were drastically reduced from a 7200 rpm HDD.

Game launches in under 2 seconds, before it use to take 15s to get to the EME/BHS logo screen.
Game also loads in under 3 seconds from char selection screen to Velika.
The warp tunnel from Velika to Lumbertown used to load in 40 seconds now it loads in 12 seconds.

SSD makes a much bigger difference in mmos than it does in single player games. You're constantly loading armor textures for different players all the time as well as environment textures.
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Running TERA on SSD was about half the load speed of the 7200rpm HDD but the HDD was only about five seconds to load and I am usually one of the first to load into an instance or zone in a group anyway. If the rest of the group was waiting for my scaly healing hide to load then I might switch back but as it is now, the HDD is more than adequate.
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DrakeDragon on 04/25/2012, 02:50 PM - view
LEss cost, more speed, go Hybrid for them stickliers.


seriously, they are good as slaves and masters. (yeah....those who put together computers will get this..others will think perverted stuff)


Hybrid drives are a waste of money.
They're barely any faster than a decent HDD, and cost 50% more, also modern day computers don't use master/slave configurations.
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I really don't see a significant difference. I have both SSD and HHD's in my computer and all you see is a few second difference in load times (I mean like literally only a 2-3 second difference, and thats when like teleporting to a different area or something).

Would be worth it to invest in a better GPU if you need one, or even some better memory, instead of an SSD. If you were playing a game that was load intensive and had you going through a lot of loading screens I could see a significant reason to go to an SSD.

On the plus side you will see a significant increase in boot time if you install your OS on it. Photoshop loads significantly faster as well. By all means get one if you really want one; they are great.

There really isn't a reason to get one just for Tera. I have my game on max settings with unlimited players being able to be shown and everything loads almost instantly, even in the most populated areas (within about 1-2seconds or less), on my normal HDD.
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Pr0fessional on 04/25/2012, 03:25 PM - view
DrakeDragon on 04/25/2012, 02:50 PM
LEss cost, more speed, go Hybrid for them stickliers.


seriously, they are good as slaves and masters. (yeah....those who put together computers will get this..others will think perverted stuff)


Hybrid drives are a waste of money.
They're barely any faster than a decent HDD, and cost 50% more, also modern day computers don't use master/slave configurations.


troll be trolling, Hybrids are way better then HHD's

i don't really care if the modern day computers don't officially use the master/slave set up, i will still call my main drive the master drive, and all secondaries, slaves.

personal preference, and nothing more.

if you've never compared the 4 types of HHD's you really shouldn't say stuff, since hybrids have been proven to be 80% faster then regular HHD's