Recording gameplay to SSD vs HDD

[bxflow]

I use Dxtory to record my gameplays and whenever I record to an external 2.0 HDD I get about 5-6 FPS drop but if I ever record to my new Samsung Evo SSD I get a 20FPS drop. This is using the default Dxtory codecs. I figured that an SSD would give better performance for recording?

 

[HappyGamer99]

Is the game you are playing located on the SSD you are recording to our a different drive?

 

[bxflow]

Is the game you are playing located on the SSD you are recording to our a different drive?

The game is on a diffrent drive used specifically for games.

 

[HappyGamer99]

Then I do not know why it is causing such slow downs. However, I would suggest just keep recording on your HDD because frame drops are inevitable when recording and 5 fps is not a bad drop. Also, why clog up your SSD and use up write cycles when you can just use your HDD. Eventually you're going to have to move the footage off the SSD our you will be using your fastest drive just to store video files.
Sorry I couldn't help more! 🙁

 

[firefoxx04]

Any modern harddrive will have enough write speed to handle recording. Even a high quality 20mbps recording is nothing to a hard drive (thats less than 5MB/s).

Recording to an SSD is not a good idea because SSDs have limited writes, especially when there is no performance reason to do so.


recording will cause an FPS drop unless you have an excess amount of cpu power. Overclocked i7s tend to record well on most games without a large hit in performance.


I would game off the SSD and record to a local or networked hard drive. I record straight to my File Server over my network and its fine.

 

[bxflow]

Then I do not know why it is causing such slow downs. However, I would suggest just keep recording on your HDD because frame drops are inevitable when recording and 5 fps is not a bad drop. Also, why clog up your SSD and use up write cycles when you can just use your HDD. Eventually you're going to have to move the footage off the SSD our you will be using your fastest drive just to store video files.
Sorry I couldn't help more! 🙁

Yea but the reason I wanted to try the SSD its because the Dxtory default codec outputs a somewhat laggy video. Not sure if ITs related to drive speed but that's the only codec that gives me the fewest FPS drop.