Cheap SSD for 4 bots?

[Newb1]

Just using standard HDD pretty laggy, gonna need like 80-100gig prolly

 

[gexstar]

Best bang for your buck is the samsung ssd 830 at the moment.

You might consider cheaper ones though, since you might not need the performance.

 

[Bottletorch]

Laggy? An SSD doesn't affect game performance, only load time as far as I know.

 

[gnomegawd]

Conventional drives have access time ssd is minimal hence lag

 

[gnomegawd]

Oh and with the vmware instruction here on this form a 64gb will run 5 however symetrical linked copies can be dangerous unless you know what files to localize.

 

[Radonic]

The best SSD you can get for botting IMO is Samsung 830!

 

[miracle]

crucial m4

 

[Master_Cirroji]

Just using standard HDD pretty laggy, gonna need like 80-100gig prolly

what are you expecting with the SSD? The only thing it would help out is the inital loading of the gamefiles into memory.

once its in memory, kinda not SSD related anymore. access times? this is something nearly unrealistic for you to tell.

I've botted on both. sata 3 ssd's, IDE 7200 rpm's, i even have tried it out on a WD raptor


-edit- games like skyrim that load alot of textures you can notice it, if your computer is slow enough your getting "texture pops"
otherwise, games like d3 with a pre-loaded texture/map system. doesn't do much

 

[redphoenix]

Vertex 4 is pretty good...

I use Vertex 4 for main and older vertex 1, 2 and 3 as drives for VM. Or data.

Currently I leave older ssd drives for data/bots folders. Since I like using isboxer

 

[Elmo]

Laggy? An SSD doesn't affect game performance, only load time as far as I know.

what are you expecting with the SSD? The only thing it would help out is the inital loading of the gamefiles into memory.

once its in memory, kinda not SSD related anymore. access times? this is something nearly unrealistic for you to tell.

I've botted on both. sata 3 ssd's, IDE 7200 rpm's, i even have tried it out on a WD raptor


-edit- games like skyrim that load alot of textures you can notice it, if your computer is slow enough your getting "texture pops"
otherwise, games like d3 with a pre-loaded texture/map system. doesn't do much

A SSD improves overall performance of the computer as a whole, so yes that includes overall performance of D3 or anything else you run on the computer, period.

 

[Bottletorch]

A SSD improves overall performance of the computer as a whole, so yes that includes overall performance of D3 or anything else you run on the computer, period.

Okay so will the performance boost make that much of a difference that running 4 bots on a SSD eliminate the lag the OP is experiencing?

 

[Elmo]

Okay so will the performance boost make that much of a difference that running 4 bots on a SSD eliminate the lag the OP is experiencing?

Possibly it will.

Perhaps his CPU isn't that great, or the hard drive itself isn't performing at its best, or a million other things.

The point is anything in your computer effects it as a whole and since Windows function starts from the hard drive, it is has a chain reaction effect across the system as a whole.

 

[Bottletorch]

4 bots, four. The driver isn't the problem.

 

[CodenameG]

Vertex 4 is pretty good...

I use Vertex 4 for main and older vertex 1, 2 and 3 as drives for VM. Or data.

Currently I leave older ssd drives for data/bots folders. Since I like using isboxer

im using an OCZ Agility 3 and i love it.

if someone really wants speed, get 2 cheap 64gb ones and put them in raid 0
that ought to be plenty fast enough.

 

[peshmarie]

my friend played d3 on a normal hdd and had some micro lags while playin, even after a fresh install of windows and d3. Then he bought a ssd and the lags are gone. seems like d3 is fuckin badly coded

 

[CodenameG]

or you could just buy a new mother board and load it up with 64gb of ram, and load D3 in a ram drive, then you wouldnt ever have loading issues.

 

[Marlhex]

what are you expecting with the SSD? The only thing it would help out is the inital loading of the gamefiles into memory.

once its in memory, kinda not SSD related anymore. access times? this is something nearly unrealistic for you to tell.

I've botted on both. sata 3 ssd's, IDE 7200 rpm's, i even have tried it out on a WD raptor

-edit- games like skyrim that load alot of textures you can notice it, if your computer is slow enough your getting "texture pops"
otherwise, games like d3 with a pre-loaded texture/map system. doesn't do much

Wait... what... IDE.... I hope you're seriously joking here?

 

[stormwarr1]

WD raptor runs it fine, just like any normal non high rpm WD would. An SSD is not gonna make any difference from a brand disc HDD for botting D3.

If you have lag caused by a HDD in D3, you must have some sort of a HDD from 10 years ago or some really poorly made no brand model. Unless this is the case, I'd look at your graphics or cpu.

Upgrading to an SSD will save you all of 1 second every hour or so when you start a new game in D3.

 

[Master_Cirroji]

A SSD improves overall performance of the computer as a whole, so yes that includes overall performance of D3 or anything else you run on the computer, period.

yup 1-3% overall system performance is faster. I really think you need to go back and check out how computers work.

a ssd doesnt help a bottlenecked CPU, an overloaded graphics card. your computer will only be as fast as your slowest link.
replacing a HDD with a SSD will only help if your really being bottlenecked by a HDD.

most current gen drives are sata 2/3. ironically, same interface that my SSD is on. an ssd cant go faster than the limit os sata2/3 . until then your going to have to wait for this "massive upgrade" from a ssd/

reality is a state of mind, so is confusion over hype on a retail product

 

[Elmo]

yup 1-3% overall system performance is faster. I really think you need to go back and check out how computers work.

a ssd doesnt help a bottlenecked CPU, an overloaded graphics card. your computer will only be as fast as your slowest link.
replacing a HDD with a SSD will only help if your really being bottlenecked by a HDD.

most current gen drives are sata 2/3. ironically, same interface that my SSD is on. an ssd cant go faster than the limit os sata2/3 . until then your going to have to wait for this "massive upgrade" from a ssd/

reality is a state of mind, so is confusion over hype on a retail product

Hype? I run servers for a living and you have no idea what you are talking about if you think running a OS on a SSD will only increase performance by 1-3%. I've done the tests myself and seen the results. It is simple plan fact.