metaton Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 (edited) Good Morning, I really could use some help:) I am playing with skyrim since it came out, I upgraded my rig for it, but now I got to the point when I need to do something wise.I have a 250 gb samsung EVO SSD drive, but my mods folder in MO reached 150 gb. I have Windows on it and also Guildwars 2 which I cannot get rid of (family reasons)so I would need more space as now I constantly deleting saves to have at least 5 gb free space on it. Now I cannot afford a 1TB SSD, I won`t go for 500 gb because it will be small soon too, if I change my drive I will go for a bigger one.There is another way, buying a Hybrid drive SSD/HD. My understanding is that the drive using the SSD part for cache (which is seems to be 8gb flash). I cannot find any relevant information how Skyrim accessing the data, so I am not sure it won`t slow down the game (is it constantly loading textures and models? How it is affecting gameplay?). I am using 250 mods, HD texture packs, K enb, so my system is really working hard, I am a bit afraid, if the reading speed will get slower the game won`t load or will CTD. So would need a bit of an expert advice, is it worth buying the hybrid and replace my small SSD, or wait until I get money for a 1 TB SSD? (which probably won`t happen for a loooong time) Edited August 3, 2015 by metaton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jones177 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Hi To me the most important test for a storage devise for use in an open world game is read burst speed.Your SSD has a read burst speed from 410 to 450 mb/s depending on manufacturer. It is about the same as the read speed.A Hybrid drive has a read burst speed of around 260 mb/s. That is a big difference. This is not about loading an operating system, it is about fetching data. You would get better performance with a WD Black 4tb than a Hybrid. I use WD VelociRaptor 1tb. Even though their read/write speeds are not much faster than a normal HD, their read burst speed is in SSD territory(401 mb/s).I will be replacing my VelociRaptor with a Crucial BX100 CT100($350) later this year. I use this site for HD/SSD performance tests. http://techreport.com/ Later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhelzei Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 The problem with a hybrid drive is that performance is going to stink compared to your current SSD. while a hybrid drive is better than a standard HD once you have to load more than 8gb of data, it performs not much better than a regular hard drive. Consider another option: buy a 2nd 250gb SSD. Leave Windows on your current drive and move the Skyrim stuff to your new drive. otherwise I'd say save up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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