Are SSDs good for gaming?

[numnums]

Hi everyone,

I've wanted to play some games on an SSD but I read that due to the frequent reading and writing of video game data on an SSD, you severely limit its reads/ writes and degrade its life all together. Is this true? Any opinions are greatly appreciated!

*EDIT*

I know SSDs don't improve the overall game, but only improve the loading times.

[dadasmithywinkle]

Hi everyone,

I've wanted to play some games on an SSD but I read that due to the frequent reading and writing of video game data on an SSD, you severely limit its reads/ writes and degrade its life all together. Is this true? Any opinions are greatly appreciated!

A lot of modern SSD's can handle a decent amount of data flow, so you'll be more than fine as long as you get a quality product.

[x Relentless Xx]

Hi everyone,

I've wanted to play some games on an SSD but I read that due to the frequent reading and writing of video game data on an SSD, you severely limit its reads/ writes and degrade its life all together. Is this true? Any opinions are greatly appreciated!

SSD's for gaming will only improve load times, wont do anything for actual gameplay

[numnums]

SSD's for gaming will only improve load times, wont do anything for actual gameplay

Ah I already knew that. I'll be sure to edit my first post.

[skline00]

They're fine.

[snarkygoldfish]

id only recomend it if you got everything as powerfull as you want it but still want to upgrade

[ReadyToGame]

They are good, but like you said in your edit, you don't gain much in game FPS, what you gain is just speedy start-ups of the game, and if the SSD fails it doesn't matter, because it's a game and can be re-installed. Plus, if you are using steam, then the games save files will be backed up by the steam cloud storage.

[tmlhalo]

Games do more reading than writing (reads don't really cause endurance loss). It would actually be less stressful than the rigors Windows does on a daily basis. Besides a small save file, the initial download, and occasional updates the rest would be reads. 

[squirrl]

They are good, but like you said in your edit, you don't gain much in game FPS, what you gain is just speedy start-ups of the game, and if the SSD fails it doesn't matter, because it's a game and can be re-installed. Plus, if you are using steam, then the games save files will be backed up by the steam cloud storage.

Only if it is supported in that particular game. (A lot don't have this feature)

[ReadyToGame]

Only if it is supported in that particular game. (A lot don't have this feature)

Yes, but most with save-games do. It's also always easy to make a backup just in case

[STRMfrmXMN]

Hi everyone,

I've wanted to play some games on an SSD but I read that due to the frequent reading and writing of video game data on an SSD, you severely limit its reads/ writes and degrade its life all together. Is this true? Any opinions are greatly appreciated!

*EDIT*

I know SSDs don't improve the overall game, but only improve the loading times.

They make loading times significantly faster. That's it. If that's what you want then great

 

Also, a recent long-term test showed that many mid-range to higher quality SSDs can stand like 700 TB or writes before crapping out. Most can hit about 1-200 TB before showing errors. Most can do about 50TB without slowing down significantly.

[numnums]

They make loading times significantly faster. That's it. If that's what you want then great

 

Also, a recent long-term test showed that many mid-range to higher quality SSDs can stand like 700 TB or writes before crapping out. Most can hit about 1-200 TB before showing errors. Most can do about 50TB without slowing down significantly.

And how long would that be? Like, a decade? Hehehe

[STRMfrmXMN]

And how long would that be? Like, a decade? Hehehe

Well in the testing done by people who pounded the thing with writes until they died it took like 6 months to kill them and about 2 months for most SSDs to get an error. Keep in mind that's a TON of stuff being written. These were all 120GB drives. Lifespan goes up with more capacity

 

EDIT: They were all around 250GB, sorry.

[Zah]

If you're going to speedrun, yes.

[Happypap55]

Hi everyone,

I've wanted to play some games on an SSD but I read that due to the frequent reading and writing of video game data on an SSD, you severely limit its reads/ writes and degrade its life all together. Is this true? Any opinions are greatly appreciated!

*EDIT*

I know SSDs don't improve the overall game, but only improve the loading times.

I only put games that have a lot of loading like Skyrim or Dark Souls or games that can give you a benefit over loading in quickly; for example I always get to choose marksman or tank commander class in RO2 because I'm always the first person in the match. Some games with in-game loading can help with framedrops if you have an SSD when it needs to load things.

 

Games like Cities: Skylines where it's only 1 loading screen the whole time you're playing isn't worth it imo.

[Bussinateur]

Should get one even if you aren't gaming

[Captain_WD]

Hi everyone,

I've wanted to play some games on an SSD but I read that due to the frequent reading and writing of video game data on an SSD, you severely limit its reads/ writes and degrade its life all together. Is this true? Any opinions are greatly appreciated!

*EDIT*

I know SSDs don't improve the overall game, but only improve the loading times.

 

 

Hey numnums, 

 

Since you know games rely on storage only for the loading times, this should give you the answer. Besides faster loading times, SSDs could improve your multitasking ability such as tabbing out of a game to do something else, and if that needs to load from the storage drive - it will be faster. SSDs also improve the overall performance of a computer, increase transfer times and make your system much more responsive. 

 

It is true that SSDs have limited amount of writing cycles, but I have yet to see someone reach that with regular consumer usage. I would say that a SSD is a great improvement to any consumer system.

 

Captain_WD.