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I have been thinking from time to time about getting another SDD possibly 500gb if money permits and I push every game I have on HDD and put it on SSD. I have looked up youtube and forums. Blah blah. But I'm hoping I can get direct answer. Is it good idea to put games on SSD as there are still read/write operations. The biggest writing operations would be saving besides installation. Would it be good idea to do so? I would hate to play game and suddenly crash on me due to wear.

Thanks a bunch in advance.
 
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Simply put look at a SSD as like a huge sized USB stick. An SSD has no moving parts unlike HDD's so SSD's do not have to wait for a part to move and SSD's have very high read speeds in the 100's of mb/s depending on which you get. An SSD will easily out run a HDD in read speed.

Before you put the OS onto the SSD go into the BIOS and change the SATA from IDE to AHCI then install your OS onto the SSD and when SATA AHCI is enabled the SSD can use all of its features correctly, my pc takes about 10 seconds to load up compared to when I used my HDD which took 1-2minutes. The SSD's boot speed is so fast that the Windows 7 logo doesn't even have time to complete its full animation.

HDD's are for holding a huge...
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Simply put look at a SSD as like a huge sized USB stick. An SSD has no moving parts unlike HDD's so SSD's do not have to wait for a part to move and SSD's have very high read speeds in the 100's of mb/s depending on which you get. An SSD will easily out run a HDD in read speed.

Before you put the OS onto the SSD go into the BIOS and change the SATA from IDE to AHCI then install your OS onto the SSD and when SATA AHCI is enabled the SSD can use all of its features correctly, my pc takes about 10 seconds to load up compared to when I used my HDD which took 1-2minutes. The SSD's boot speed is so fast that the Windows 7 logo doesn't even have time to complete its full animation.

HDD's are for holding a huge bulk of data such as for CCTV video recording for an example. While SSD are for having programs that need fast read speeds such as operating system files. I saw a huge difference with my chrome browser when I got an SSD too.

I currently have the Samsung EVO 850 250GB rather than the 500GB as it is way overpriced at the moment. I have a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue for all my junk programs and games I don't play a lot or just don't require fast load up.

An SSD is the best thing you can put in a pc for an upgrade, that or a better CPU. Now I have my SSD the CPU can actually get things done, rather than when it had to wait for my HDD to load stuff.
 
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The wear thing about SSD's is long past being relevant.
Read this:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7173/samsung-ssd-840-evo-review-120gb-250gb-500gb-750gb-1tb-models-tested/3

You are fine. That drive will outlive the rest of the system. May even outlive you.
It will become obsolete due to size long before it wears out from too many write cycles.
 
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I agree the SSD is very good is gaming, but I don't agree to copy the games installed From the old HDD which is platter. All you need is to setup the games in SSD after you installed a OS on it. Make your old hdd as a backup drive. SSD is better than platter HDD because its have fastest boot compare to standard HDD

 
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Thank you Wayfall. This really clears up. I have SSD and HDD set up at the moment. I have been thinking about adding SSD solely for games for excellent performance to prevent such load up times.
 
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Yes. I have set mine to AHCI. I have absolutely forgot to confirm it is ACHI in regedit. I had to do fresh reinstall after 3 years of use about 8 months ago. So thanks for reminding me.
 
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Well say you were on IDE in the BIOS and had Windows 7 installed then Windows is only going to use IDE. If you change to AHCI without going into regedit beforehand you would get a BSOD saying there is a hardware failure or that I cant boot.

Just make sure Regedit has the right bit at code on the right number then go bios and put it to AHCI if it isn't already.

Most SSD's have software that you can use to look over your SSD's health and if it has AHCI enabled then the SSD can use TRIM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(computing)

But ye you should look into all of this.
 
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I haven't had BSOD EVER since I built and installed. So that's why I'm happy you mentioned it. I was triple checking to make sure I got standard installation procedure checked. But forgot one thing. I even double check to make sure it's not paged.
 
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Yes. I have already set AHCI in bios but will double check in regedit to be sure. No I don't have program that came with SSD to check out overview. IT didn't come in with it. I have AMD Radeon R 7 SSD
 
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You may need to do some research on finding a trusted SSD software as AMD actually has no software for the SSD weirdly enough, you could email and ask them which could be very helpful.

I have Samsung Magician software due owning a Samsung EVO 850 SSD which is very very good
 
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