Guild Wars 2

I have a new ssd that is large enough to hold my os and games, but I also have a new 90 gig that I had a warranty for an older one that went bad.

My question is, will I have any positive or negative outcomes if I use one ssd for games and one for the os. The transfer speeds are the same on both but not the same drive so raid is out of the question. Or should I just use the one large ssd for all os and apps and games?

i would use largest SSD you can find and use as OS and game app.
leave that 90 gig one on auction house, or convert it to portable drive.

why would you suggest this?

theory that once you take up 70% of total available space, SSDs tend to chop down performance.
‘course, you can have two drives working side-by-side. larger one for OS and smaller one for game app, but i don’t find that making any sense.

besides, SSD are much faster and use less power then mechanical drive. i’d have a large capacity drive, say 2.5" 7200-rpm 500GB when it comes to storage. just to taking advantage of both worlds.

You won’t see any difference using it either way in terms of performance.

However, I do have a preference of keeping the OS isolated on it’s own encrypted drive. While my games will be on a second un-encrypted drive. Just makes it easier when I need to fix/move/update the OS. Also makes drive imaging and backups easier.

tekwiz.8635:

or convert it to portable drive.

That usually means plugging it into an external USB case, and would be about the most stupid thing one can do with a SSD drive. Arbitrarily capping whats best about it (raw data throughput) with the crappy USB 2.0(even3.0) cap.

Just use the smaller as the system drive.

The 90 gig should suffice nicely for a Win7 system with assorted apps and still have the comfortable headroom of about 10-20 gig free to ensure longevity. That 70% sounds like yet another SSD myth. I believe peeps are confusing longevity with performance problems.

The 120 as a gamedrive would be perfect.
No need to watch how full it gets as games are overwhelmingly doing data reads, which is irrelevant in regards to longevity or performance.

there’s a e-sata casing out there, but that’s just my 2-cents.

The larger the SSD = The faster is the speed.

you should try benchmarking both and you will see.
Install OS and the games you play most on the large one, and other stuff you want fast, but don’t use as often on the other one. Just my 2 cents

I use a 64GB SSD for the operating system and some programs, 256 GB SSD for all my games, and a 1tb HDD for storage works fine for me.

zerk.9701:

I use a 64GB SSD for the operating system and some programs, 256 GB SSD for all my games, and a 1tb HDD for storage works fine for me.

Then your OS is actually on the slower drive. The dynamics of SSD-silicon production and controller/driver choice usually means the larger drives have more performance.

No a SSD does not slow down at 70% capacity, not if you have TRIM active. Also most SSD’s overprovision.

Samfisher.7942:

zerk.9701:

I use a 64GB SSD for the operating system and some programs, 256 GB SSD for all my games, and a 1tb HDD for storage works fine for me.

Then your OS is actually on the slower drive. The dynamics of SSD-silicon production and controller/driver choice usually means the larger drives have more performance.

No a SSD does not slow down at 70% capacity, not if you have TRIM active. Also most SSD’s overprovision.

Well yes that’s perrty much a no brainer as the specs say that. If my OS was on the larger drive I guess I would get a 9.9 second boot time instead of 10.
Samsnug 830 64GB
Sequential read 520 MB/s, write 160, Random read 75,000 IOPS, write 16,000
Samsung 830 256GB
Sequential read 520 MB/s, write 400, Random read 80,000 IOPS, write 36,000
Did a bench test on both had these results. sequential read the 64GB was 38MB/s slower,
write 34MB/s slower, Random read 242 IOPS quicker, write 3,624 slower.

I sugest OS & games on the same larger drive. Mainly so its easier for the system to find and transfer data when running programs. Going back and forth between 2 drives from OS to program can theoreticaly cause a slower performance ..now this is mainly with old HDD’s ..a SSD sholdnt see this problem becouse they are so fast but i would say ‘better safe than sorry’.
Just make sure you dont fil lthe SSD ..its NOT a myth that SSD’s slow down as they fill up.

Use the smaller SSD for what ever..or sell it.

I only use a 128gb SSD myself and thats big enough for OS + 2 large MMO’s and still have 33% space left. I got 2x 500gb 10k rpm drives in Raid 0 for storage.