You can put steam there.
People are complaining they cannot fit ALL of their steam games, installed, on the SSD at the same time. But you don't have to install all of them at the same time.
Also you can use one of the programs to relocate steam games.
Games see a substantial increase in level load times and texture pop reduction.
They do not see any difference in FPS.
Yeah I noticed that taltamir, but also noticed you're on a H55M, does that mean you're on 3Gbps or have you shelled out for a quality 6Gbps PCI Express card?
Also if you don't have enough space on the SSD for the whole steam folder you can use symbolic links to run certain games from it.
I know about Steam junctions. I will install wow on my SSD but steams going on my Media drive. I have way to many steam games and if I want something on the SSD then I'll junction.
Install steam on another drive and then junction select games to it is a great strategy for some people. Especially if they didn't buy a 240GB SSD
...or can't afford one because they just bought a 560ti/448... :awe:
Christmas will be here soon, though...
Install steam on another drive and then junction select games to it is a great strategy for some people. Especially if they didn't buy a 240GB SSD
Just wondering if there was anything major I should avoid putting onto my new SSD. I know to not put Steam on it but what about other games. Namely World of Warcraft. Do games even see a substantial boost in performance from an SSD?
You might want to move your browser cache over to a spinner if you can. Doesn't take up a lot of space, but it can save your SSD many unnecessary writes.
Wow is a game I heard that does benefit greatly from an SSD.
For steam I only have some of games installed on the SSD because not all benefit.
The boost you will see is mostly level loading. So BF3 is a game that gets a nice boost during map loads. But once you load everything into memory you wouldn't be able to see the difference unless you start alt tabbing out of game and don't have alot of system memory.
I actually recommend putting the cache on the SSD.
You enjoy faster browsing, and the amount of writes you "waste" are trivial.
Edit: Had a fail with smileys, hence the odd spaces after drive letters
Use the [plain] tag to prevent stuff like D: from being turned into a smiley. D:
I noticed a difference in browser speed when I moved mine.
However I don't see a difference when its ssd vs ramdisc but moved it to the ramdisc anyways for less "trivial" writes on my ssd =)
I never understood forking over so much money for a SSD, then being too scared to use it.
I treat mine just like a HDD. I have multiple partitions on it and I write to it as much as I need. I dont make any special effort to lighten its workload, and Ill have absolutely no hesitation in filling it up completely if it becomes necessary.
If an expensive SSD cant handle being treated like a cheap HDD then the technology is fundamentally broken.
The only thing I dont do is defrag because such a concept is meaningless for an SSD.