Installation on ssd or sata hard drive?

Hopefully someone can help me. I've just upgraded my PC and now have a SSD hard drive as my main boot drive and a separate SATA hd as a storage drive. Does anyone know if installing Assetto Corsa on SSD will make much difference performance wise to installing on SATA.

My SATA drive is a WD Black so it's SATA III with 6gb/s. If I'm not going to see much of a performance increase from installing AC on the SSD I would rather install on my storage drive to save space for applications that may get a better performance boost.

Cheers for any help!

 

ssd is for achieve lower loading times and not for video rendering so it makes no difference

 

you'll see improvements only in loading the game files like the tracks

 

AC already loads fast enough that I didn't notice much difference when I installed it to my SSD.

 

OK cheers for the advice. I'll put on SATA then as AC can get pretty big and loading times were never that bad to begin with.

 

loading times, sometimes it can increase fps, things like stuttering might be reduced, only a might.

 

Steam +games on my SATA drive, SSD for Windows etc.

 

Games with annoyingly long load times, flightsims that sort of thing, benefit from SSD. Other games it really makes no difference in my experience, especially if you have lots of RAM available.

 

OS on SSD, the rest on any good SATA3 hard drives.

 

i have mSATA (which is SATA-2 speed specifications) SSD, besides of reduce of loading times, there is no differences, so if this important for you, you can install corsa there.

 

What size is your ssd? I've gotta 120 and only use my PC for sim racing but filled up in no time (updates), ended in having to move steam games to my sata drive. No major difference in the loading times

 

Mine is 500gb but I have a lot of large software I need which I think might benifit more from the speed boost. Seems the feeling is that it doesnt make much difference speed wise. I'm enjoying my PC taking 15 seconds to start up now instead of 15 min

 

I would install 3dsMax and Photoshop, plus whatever else you use for work on the SSD.

 

This is actually more complex than some think and can work both ways...Some games experience faster loading, some don't.

A. Many games are actually CPU limited during loading because they are extracting or uncompressing or whatever (I always confuse these terms) all sorts of compressed files in order to load the game/level. These situations will then have the CPU as the bottleneck therefore preventing, for the most part, your storage drive to make a relatively noticeable impact on the loading time. Then, when you load the track again, the files are all stored in you RAM anyways which is 100000 times faster than even an SSD.

B. If the game doesn't fall into the above category (much more CPU-speed dependent than storage drive speed dependent) than the SSD will definitely make a large difference compared to the HDD.

Basically someone needs to simply test the particular game. I haven't tested AC, but I remember someone, maybe 1.5 years ago doing this test with rFactor 2, and he had almost the exact same track-loading time. I believe that particular game falls under scenario "A", above.


P.S. SSDs can make a large difference if you're recording too. On 1920x1080 @ 30 FPS with a very small file size codec (Lagarith), my Samsung Spinpoint F3 is fine, but recording @ 5760x1080, it is the culprit of framerate drops, but with the SSD, I don't get the framedrops. I haven't tested the HDD @ 1920x1080 @ 60 FPS though, and I have a feeling the HDD won't be able to handle recording @ 1440P @ 60 FPS, which is my aim. Having said that, I have just bought 3 1TB WD Velociraptors which can achieve a sustained 600 Mb/s for both reads and writes - the top SSDs usually do 480-550 Mb/s - so no more SSD recording for me

 

Switching from ramdisk to SSD, I think multiplayer races take some 50-80% longer to load.

 

I installed AC at my SSD and the loading times difference is minimal.
I recommend you to install AC at your HDD.

 

Changing this around slightly, I have 2 x 250gb SSD drives in my PC. I'm not running out of space but if things got tight do I get another SSD or get a large HDD instead? The SDDs are not RAIDed.

 

If money is no object and you want a SSD that costs twice ney thrice your system then I proudly present the
Intel DC P3600 Series 2.0TB SSD PCI-e Adaptor Card Solid State Drive

• Capacity: 2000GB

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Now for mere mortal`s like me,
lets get back to earth,
A good fast 1TB HDD would be the best and cheapest option.

Anyhoo :- AJ McDaddy, do what your gut feeling tells ya. it`s your money after all

 

LOL, I'm a mortal!

I got the SSD's in Black Friday deals so didn't pay 'too' much for them, but definitely a lot more than I would for one 512GB HDD.

I think that I'll probably go with a large HDD, as there's no point in keeping on throwing money at smaller SDDs if I'm not going to get any speed benefit I guess.