@Phynaz: what are you talking about? SSD endurance is only relevant for SOHO/enterprise users not for consumers. All regular SSDs are durable enough for common usage.
@Phynaz: what are you talking about? SSD endurance is only relevant for SOHO/enterprise users not for consumers. All regular SSDs are durable enough for common usage.
@Craig234: yes MMO's are among the games that benefit the most from SSDs. This is because they tend to do I/O while the game is running, i.e. not just for loading scenes but also during gameplay. I played World of Warcraft in the past and noticed a difference between SSD and HDD during gameplay. If an enemy player ran into your field of vision with textures that needed to be loaded on the fly, the HDD would cause FPS drops that was quite annoying. Having the game on an SSD will resolve such issues, and will also cause faster game loading scenes and startup.
Have you ever heard of an SSD wearing out when someone wasn't purposefully attempting it?
There's your answer.
For playing/performance it is. Lots of loading it's good to do faster.
But it'd increase writes a good amount - would that cause enough harm to make it bad?
Have you ever heard of an SSD wearing out when someone wasn't purposefully attempting it?
There's your answer.
This.
Even my first 80GB X25-M G1 SSD is still healthy. While HDs have died left and right in the meantime.