AC Unity performs better on HDD than my SSD

[nankura]

Hey guys

ok i am just lost. im abit new to SSD's, anyway so heres what happened

I basically switched around my OS a few times , just to play around with win 7, then went to win 10, then to 8.1, so ive done alot of formatting on my SSD, so finally i settled with windows 8.1, just works for me ( dont hate ! )

And i reinstalled AC Unity after playing around, and when i first got my SSD, it ran like a dream. but all of a sudden its been stuttering pretty badly after a while of the PC being on

I also noticed my firefox tabs, and general things having abit of a performance drop

So i tested my CPU with prime95, ran memtest, Furmark to test every bit of my hardware and everything passed with flying colors, i couldnt figure out the issue and the sudden stuttering lag spikes in AC Unity and Witcher 3

My friend suggested just to try moving the games from my SSD to my HDD

And low and behold, they run absolutely fine, no lag spikes, no stuttering, and a smooth framerate.............................. im shocked

That points to my SSD being the issue

I asked my friend at a store, and he said that all the formatting i did has left data in the SSD and its degraded performance, and that i should do a secure erase

Long story short. im not sure how this is possible and im wondering what ive done wrong to the SSD

 

[Frag Maniac]

Could be what the guy at the store said, esp if you did any "upgrade" vs clean installs of the OSes you tried.

SSD's don't always play games better though. It can depend on the equality of their controller, how effectively they deal with certain file sizes, and whether you run your page file on them, which isn't necessary or recommended, as the constant writing and erasing is hard on them.

Personally, I find a decent HDD for games (WD Black 1TB), and a 120-128GB SSD for OS and programs, is a good combination. A decent HDD like the above can yield as high as 180Mb/s write speed on the edge of the platter (which is where i put my page file), and is FAR more cost effective storage of today's large file games.