Hard drive is causing loads of stuttering on open world games

[leon12321]

Hard drive link:

https://hdd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/130/ST1000LM024-HN-M101MBB

 

I moved the game from this hard drive to my SSD and everything works fine but I need a 1TB storage drive but all 1TB SSDs are really frickin expensive. 

 

Can someone recommend me a much better hard drive or solid state hybrid drive for the same capacity (1tb) under 40 quid? That'd be much appreciated. 

 

 

 

[Juular]

That's old-ass HDD but you wouldn't get any improvement with modern HDDs either, you need an SSD. Crucial MX500 \ WD Blue 3D go for 110 GBP, not sure if that qualifies as expensive or you were looking at smth else.

[leon12321]

2 minutes ago, Juular said:

That's old-ass HDD but you wouldn't get any improvement with modern HDDs either, you need an SSD. Crucial MX500 \ WD Blue 3D go for 110 GBP, not sure if that qualifies as expensive or you were looking at smth else.

That's expensive I'm afraid. 

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under 40 quid?

 

[Juular]

Alternatively you could probably somewhat fix it with Intel Optane but i'd rather not bother with it and you need 2\3-gen Z\B or H270\H370 chipset for it.

[SpookyCitrus]

No way you're going to get a quality 1TB SSD for less than 80, these TCSUNBOWs are cheap and haven't had issues with the ones I've used.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TCSUNBOW-SATAIII-Internal-Notebook-Desktop/dp/B07H5BTB34/ref=sr_1_14?keywords=1tb+ssd&qid=1578950650&sr=8-14

You can get a nice 7200rpm 1tb HDD like a baracuda for around 45.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-Drive-Cache/dp/B07D99KFPK/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=seagate+barracuda&qid=1578950588&sr=8-7

[Juular]

Cheapest hybrid HDD goes for 50 quid, with 8GB SSD cache, so if anything 16GB Optane looks better if you have support for it and don't necessarily need more storage, just to speed-up existing one.

[Stu_Bear]

Just use your old 1tb hdd for storage...that's what they are good for.  Plenty fast for watching movies, listening to music or viewing photos.  I have 2 1tb hdds in my rig...they pretty much just collect dust.

[seagate_surfer]

If you want you can try an FW update: https://apps1.seagate.com/downloads/request.html

The HDD is certainly old and this upgrade (if any) could help you or maybe there will be no difference. Unlike what most people believe, an SSD brings better loading times so less waiting times, however, it does not bring a better performance. That is, you can load a game in let's say 10 seconds but at the time of being live you will not notice any difference to having loaded the same game in 30 seconds with an HDD. Sometimes the storage device simply gets damaged and changing it for another one solves the problem.

[Stu_Bear]

17 hours ago, seagate_surfer said:

Unlike what most people believe, an SSD brings better loading times so less waiting times, however, it does not bring a better performance. 

Have you ever played a game called DayZ from a HDD ?  You should give it a try...then load same game on a SSD...day and night difference.  Some open world games are so large...that the game makes zero attempt at loading everything into ram...cause it's not possible on most pcs.  When you run around in the open world the game is pretty constantly making calls to the drive for map details and textures.  It stutters pretty bad on a hdd...