Why don't HDD's have read/write speeds listed when buying?

[kaio37k]

Unlike SSD's.

Reason: I've been told that my HDD is the reason that FRAPS is dropping to 5 fps when recording BF3 even though I get full 60 on ultra when not recording. I have a 1 TB caviar Black.

 

[stickmansam]

maybe because they are embarrassed? 😛

if you record to the game drive/OS drive while playing this can happen

 

[cklaubur]

What's the rest of your computer's specs?

A Caviar Black is pretty fast for a mechanical hard drive. I'm inclined to believe something else is slowing your computer down, but without the specs, it's just a guess.

Casey

 

[kaio37k]

maybe because they are embarrassed? 😛

if you record to the game drive/OS drive while playing this can happen

Haha, I'm buying an SSD soon... don't worry lol.
But all my games are installed on my secondary drive and I still have this issue.
OS - C:, Games - F:, FRAPS (Recording to) - F:

 

[cklaubur]

maybe because they are embarrassed? 😛

if you record to the game drive/OS drive while playing this can happen

Haha, I'm buying an SSD soon... don't worry lol.
But all my games are installed on my secondary drive and I still have this issue.
OS - C:, Games - F:, FRAPS (Recording to) - F:

It looks like you are recording to the game drive, which making a drive try to read from one spot while writing to another will really slow the computer down.

Do you have separate physical drives, or just partitions on one hard drive?

Casey

 

[stickmansam]

yeah, best to record to a separate physcial drive altogether

 

[kaio37k]

maybe because they are embarrassed? 😛

if you record to the game drive/OS drive while playing this can happen

Haha, I'm buying an SSD soon... don't worry lol.
But all my games are installed on my secondary drive and I still have this issue.
OS - C:, Games - F:, FRAPS (Recording to) - F:

It looks like you are recording to the game drive, which making a drive try to read from one spot while writing to another will really slow the computer down.

Do you have separate physical drives, or just partitions on one hard drive?

Casey

I only have two physical drives, (just googled what a partition drive is) but I do have 4 drives (2 of which must be partition).
One partition (G has 99MB and partition (H has 232GB. Would having these partitions be beneficial in any way? I did not intend to create partitions but one day they both kind of just a appeared.

 

[stickmansam]

well recording to different partitions of the same drive that also has game install doesn't really provide a benefit

separate physical drives are whats needed

 

[kaio37k]

well recording to different partitions of the same drive that also has game install doesn't really provide a benefit

separate physical drives are whats needed

So, when I get my SSD, do you recommend putting my games on the SSD then recording to the F: drive?

 

[stickmansam]

yeah that would work well

if can do a complete reinstall, you can put your OS on the SSD, games on another and record to another

 

[kaio37k]

What's the rest of your computer's specs?

A Caviar Black is pretty fast for a mechanical hard drive. I'm inclined to believe something else is slowing your computer down, but without the specs, it's just a guess.

Casey

CPU: i7-920 @3.4GHz
GPU: GTX 660 Ti
MOBO: DX58SO
RAM: Kingston Hyper-X 6GB @2GHz

 

[popatim]

resolution, quality, frames per second .. all have an impact on how well you can record.

 

[kaio37k]

resolution, quality, frames per second .. all have an impact on how well you can record.

Degrading doesn't seem to resolve the problem.

 

[kaio37k]

yeah that would work well

if can do a complete reinstall, you can put your OS on the SSD, games on another and record to another

What if I put my OS and *some* games on my SSD? I'd really like to load games like KSP in 20 seconds in stead of minutes lol

 

[stickmansam]

you can do that as well SSD's as fast enough regardless

 

[kaio37k]

you can do that as well SSD's as fast enough regardless

OK, thanks!