Game Storage.

[Nosfy]

Hey guys.

 

Looking for some info on what most people do when it comes to game storage.

Do you store your games on an SSD. HDD or another way?

 

If there a reason why you store your games the way you do? Any benefits of one over another?

 

 

[ProjectBox153]

Storing games on an SSD will only decrease loading times. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

I store most games on HDD and games I play a lot on SSD. It only really affects load times, performance remains the same. 

[Xenift]

I do it in my HDD because i believe SSDs wear faster over longer writes of data.

And 7 games in my pc fills like 40% of my 1tb blues. >.>

[Nosfy]

33 minutes ago, Xenift said:

I do it in my HDD because i believe SSDs wear faster over longer writes of data.

And 7 games in my pc fills like 40% of my 1tb blues. >.>

Is there evidence that SSD's wear faster?

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, Nosfy said:

Is there evidence that SSD's wear faster?

Yes. They are flash storage, which is why they have read/write cycles. 

[Norwegiandude]

I store csgo 20gb on my ssd, but things like wow,watchdogs2 and big games i store on an hdd

[flibberdipper]

When I actually get the hard drive I want, I'll just keep everything on it, even though it's only a 2TB 2.5" 5400RPM drive.

9 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Yes. They are flash storage, which is why they have read/write cycles. 

Just write cycles. You can read from NAND all you want, but writing is what causes wear. 

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, tmcclelland455 said:

When I actually get the hard drive I want, I'll just keep everything on it, even though it's only a 2TB 2.5" 5400RPM drive.

Just write cycles. You can read from NAND all you want, but writing is what causes wear. 

Oh OK. Now I know just a bit more. 

[Xenift]

7 minutes ago, Nosfy said:

Is there evidence that SSD's wear faster?

Heres some math things.

SSDs are rated by TBW, total bytes written, HDDs are by load and unload cycles.

A 850 evo is rated at 300 terabytes.(Highest end) (Lowest is at 75)

HDDs are 300k cycles.

If i still can do math then, 75*1000/120 = cycles for SSD

Cycles for SSD can be very diffrent from HDD but just from raw numbers.

That is 625 cycles.

[mikat]

15 minutes ago, Nosfy said:

Is there evidence that SSD's wear faster?

SSDs can stop working if they write too much data, but in reality, this is something that only really happens in a datacenter when it's being hit 24/7

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

You can easily write hundreds of terabytes without problems

and they fail far beyond their rated TBW (terabytes written)

 

for smaller games like CS:GO I'd consider putting them on your SSD, because of map load times, but if you're installing GTA V & other AAA titles I'd store them on an HDD because SSD storage is too expensive for those sizes

[flibberdipper]

5 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Oh OK. Now I know just a bit more.