Alternative to SSD?

[orangecat]

So i have an SSD as my boot drive and they are super expensive still so I was thinking RAID 0 HDDs for my games because I want faster loading times but I don't want to pay the premium price per gigabyte. I was thinking 2 1TB HDDs off my onboard SATA controller.

[ilikemacandpc]

Honestly, Raid 0 HDDs isn't worth it. Just deal with the marginally slower loading times on one set of hard driver OR get a bigger SSD. 

[SurvivorNVL]

Could get an SSHD to cache games you frequently play.  Seagate has some cheap SSHD's or can just pick up a Mushkin Reactor 1tb SSD for $360.  They're seemingly amazing *_*

[ooiman92]

I don't think a RAID would increase your loading times. You should get an SSHD, or use a quick flash drive as a cache to get a similar boost (readyboost).

[mrmonmon2]

scavenge ram from anywhere you can, make a large ram disk, load games to that

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profit

[CaptainEinstein]

So i have an SSD as my boot drive and they are super expensive still so I was thinking RAID 0 HDDs for my games because I want faster loading times but I don't want to pay the premium price per gigabyte. I was thinking 2 1TB HDDs off my onboard SATA controller.

Not sure if you're a fan of "short stroking" but I do it myself. I have a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB as my boot drive and a Seagate Barracuda 1TB as storage. I do the short stroking and keep the faster partition for my games and the slower partition for my downloads and pictures and documents, videos. The performance isn't really THAT much but I do see improvements on the loading times from doing it. Though, I don't see why you would want faster loading times? Because even if you don't use an SSD for a game it still loads quite fast, I wouldn't bother unless you want more storage. 

 

Edit: Linus did a video on it