Anyone else considering a SSD for WAR?

[Nerror]

I am seriously considering getting a 16GB SSD (Solid State Drive) for WAR. It wouldn't be until just before the game is out, because the prices keep going down by a lot (they are friggin expensive atm. :p), but the 0.1 ms access time and the 100Mb/s read/write speeds are tempting. 16GB should be plenty for WAR, and I am ok with having the OS on a regular HD, because whether or not it takes me 30 secs extra to boot doesn't matter.

Anyone else been considering this? :)

[Krigare]

I don't think it would make that huge of a difference. I don't know what the load situation is for WAR but I have never wished I had a faster HD while playing an MMO, or any game for that matter.

I suppose some people might want to be able to get into the game faster from desktop but I don't care enough nor have the extra money laying around. Also, at least in WoW, my load times were dependent on how many addons I had enabled.

[Obby]

Seems a bit pointless for me. The only thing a drive like that would really be useful for would be a boot drive. Put only your OS on there and then save everything else to a second, larger hard drive.

[Valinox Ruina]

SSD for gaming is like having two 10k RPM Raptors in Raid0 for gaming... all it does is decrease loading times. Does not improve your FPS, smooth gameplay... or anything. So depending wether or not WAR is 1 zone (like WoW) or have zones for just cities... I could see why maybe having a faster HD would be beneficial... but honestly.. having a good computer overall (fast CPU, 2-4gigs ram, good GPU) are far more important that having a fast HDD. I have a 320gig 7200.10 HDD in my gaming comp, my brother has 10k RPM Raptors in his.. I only see about a 5 sec load difference between us in DAoC.

[Nerror]

It depends on how well WAR preloads all the textures. I know in DAoC, on the same Gamebryo engine, I often experienced the "lagdar" which essentially was the HD loading the textures of other players as they came into range. That was with 2GB of RAM too.

If the prices come down enough, getting a 32GB SSD for vista and WAR would make more sense I agree. And I realise the gain is minimal of course. RAM, GPU and CPU is much more important.

[Aes]

Solid state drives are very good at loading many very small files, but a SATA hard disk is going to load a huge continuous file faster, the big advantage of an SSD is that it can jump around the drive so much faster whereas a hard disk is abysmally slow at tracking back forth over the disk in comparison. I don't know how WAR is going to be packaged, but you might find that WAR loads slower if you set it to an SDD, and your hard disk is not to going to be the bottle neck for loading textures unless you did a crappy install on a near full disk that hasn't been defragged in years, RAM will be a bigger concern. SSD are best put to use in ultra small laptops so you can boot faster and disk space isn't a primary concern, I don't think they're worth it in pc's just yet.

[Aaronthethird]

Like the above poster said, SSD are really a major advantage in laptops, one of the biggest reasons being much lower power consumption with faster loading times. One of the reasons they don't put a lot of high speed Hard Drives in laptops is because they eat up the battery life. In a desktop you are going to be fine just putting 2 high speed drives in Raid 0.

[8igdave]

At the current price they are of no real advantage to anything. You could buy alot of extra 9cell battery packs for your laptop and it be alot cheaper. And i doubt the power consumption is worth the extra cost over just charging a bit more oftern.

You probably wont notice any difference in gaming. Tbh, at their current price and size i cant see them being of any use to anyone who is into gamin.