SSD same as HDD

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

I just bought a SSD and I opened a game to see if its faster that my RAID 0 HDD's and its the same! Shouldn't the SSD be faster?

 

[Archaic59]

The SSD will only improve game load times and checkpoint save times. Performance will be the same. Objects that load dynamically ingame will be faster and smoother but fps will be unchanged.

 

[weberdarren97]

That's an unfair comparison. A RAID0 array of SSDs would be faster than a RAID0 array of HDDs. However, what you're doing there is like saying "I had three 980s in SLI, why isn't my new single 980ti faster?"

To compare speeds, you'll need to compare the SSDs speed to that of a single HDD if you want an accurate result.

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

But what I'm saying is that the SSD is going as fast is a reg HDD. All I did was pop in the SSD in my rig and that's it. Do I need drivers?

 

[weberdarren97]

You do not need drivers.

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

Hmmm how fast should it be? What can I test it with to see if it's doing fine

 

[weberdarren97]

CrystalDiskMark

How fast it should be depends on the make and model, different SSDs operate at different internal speeds

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

its a pny cs1311 120gb

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

Trying that benchmark

 

[weberdarren97]

550MB/s read, 520MB/s write. It should be much faster than a HDD. Go ahead and get CrystalDiskMark here: http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

The ssd is hell faster than my raid so why is game loading times the same?

 

[k1114]

Are the games on the ssd?

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

Yeah

 

[k1114]

What games?

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

I did a test with sonic adventure 2 because I seen it on a SSD and Ik how it should be but I ran it on my HDD and the my SSD and it was the same. I seen a livestreamer play it on a SSD and it loaded it In half the time it does now

 

[k1114]

What's your specs? Did you try other games? Sounds like the issue is elsewhere if the benchmarks were fine.

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

4690K at 4.5 GHz 10 Gb ram and a GTX 960

 

[weberdarren97]

What is your RAM speed? Hopefully it's 1600MHz.

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

What is your RAM speed? Hopefully it's 1600MHz.

That or 1333 MHz

 

[weberdarren97]

Either way, it shouldn't be the cause of this problem

 

[k1114]

I didn't mean the specs were an issue but if you are only trying 1 game then you can't conclude the ssd is the issue. What were your benchmark speeds anyways?

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

Either way, it shouldn't be the cause of this problem

So what is?

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

I didn't mean the specs were an issue but if you are only trying 1 game then you can't conclude the ssd is the issue. What were your benchmark speeds anyways?

the raid0 was like 120 mb and the ssd was like 530 mb
i tryed 4 games now

 

[k1114]

What antivirus do you have? It maybe scanning anything that you open. You can try to disable it and open the game. There can also be issues with windows doing the same. Is there anything that shows any more than normal usage, even if just a little, while opening a game?

 

[Shadowsoul Azzy]

I just put the ssd in the laptop instead. Thanks tho