Samsung SSD EVO 250gb - games on it and performance.

[sew333]

Hello. So i bought my new disk Samsung SSD Evo 250 gb. This is my only disk. My question is about performance. Can i install games on this disk and play with better performance than hdd?

 

[Nebulous]

Load times will be faster on an SSD over a typical platter drive.

 

[RollingThunder]

Hello. So i bought my new disk Samsung SSD Evo 250 gb. This is my only disk. My question is about performance. Can i install games on this disk and play with better performance than hdd?

Ooohhhhh, you're gonna luv that SSD!

 

[Janus67]

Load times will be faster on an SSD over a typical platter drive.

Exactly. Load times will be better and if games are needing to load textures from the drive then it will be faster for that as well.

 

[EarthDog]

Load times will be faster on an SSD over a typical platter drive.

Exactly. Load times will be better and if games are needing to load textures from the drive then it will be faster for that as well.

Yep, and Yep!

But it will NOT increase FPS...

 

[wingman99]

Here are my times Samsung EVO SSD VS HDD.
I did it with a stopwatch and each test I did 4 times.

All test were from system bootup.

HDD Raptor AHCI
PC startup 50 seconds to active.

crysis 3 startup 1:07 minute.

crysis 3 loading multiplayer map 41 seconds.

BF3 loading origin and web browser 44 seconds.

BF3 loading multiplayer map 1:40 minute.

Battlefield: Bad Company loading multiplayer map 19 seconds.

Samsung 840 EVO SSD AHCI
PC startup 30 seconds to active.

crysis 3 startup 46 seconds.

crysis 3 loading multiplayer map 25 seconds.

BF3 loading origin and web browser 14 seconds.

BF3 loading multiplayer map 37 seconds.

Battlefield: Bad Company loading multiplayer map 16 seconds.

You won't get better performance in games, that is video card and CPU also memory however you will have faster load times with a fresh boot aslo when your memory is clear.

 

[JrClocker]

@wingman99: You need a Samsung 950 Pro M.2!

 

[EarthDog]

@wingman99: You need a Samsung 950 Pro M.2!

+1... love it.

Nothing like hitting an active Desktop in W10 in ~15s.

 

[JrClocker]

Yup...launch a program...blink...it's loaded!

 

[wingman99]

@wingman99: You need a Samsung 950 Pro M.2!

+1... love it.

Nothing like hitting an active Desktop in W10 in ~15s.

Yup...launch a program...blink...it's loaded!

Thanks I'm doing fine. The Samsung EVO SSD is fast enough when working on my PC, the times I posted for startup were with bios loading, I pushed the start button, glad you both like your 950 PRO it's a monster.