PoE + SSD Drive.

Hey.
I'm just wondering how much an SSD Drive will effect PoE and loading times between zones.

Currently PoE takes a while to load on my machine, which isn't a big deal, but loading up a new zone can take 3+ seconds... In the past I haven't cared about it too much as 3 seconds isn't a big deal, but during this 1 week race I actually RIPed while the 'loading' screen was up.
Nothing worse than looking at the loading screen and hearing your character die. Pretty annoying stuff really...

So I'm just wondering if having PoE on an SSD Drive would have made the next zone/town load faster and could have avoided my death or is that more a server side/Internet speed thing and an SSD wouldn't have made any difference.


I know an SSD will drastically improve performance and I plan on getting one in April when I build my new rig, but if it will improve PoE now then I may as well pick one up.
If not than I'll just wait and get it with all the other parts in April.

Cheers.

Try SSD, never look back. It is a promise.

So I'm guessing that's a 'Yes' to it speeds up zone loading time?

yes, a ssd will reduce your load times significantly. I recently upgraded to one and its not even comparable. Over 3 secs load times before like you, now load times range from 0.5secs to a max of like 1 sec

Excellent.
Off to PBTech tomorrow then.

Essentially there are pcs with ssd and those without. It makes such a huge difference in many things. Well worth having one. Chances are the hard drive is the link that slows the entire pc down for many users.

Yea.
Currently my HDD is the bottleneck on my current rig but its certainly bearable and I have never really had a reason to install one.

But when timing becomes so important in A hardcore league (and races) then it just seems like the right time to get one.
Especially after experiencing a death because the next zone didn't load fast enough.


Its kinda strange how the game keeps playing in the background for a short while when the 'loading' screen comes up.

SSDs are just amazing.

Computer used to take 3+ minutes to fully boot up - now it takes about 30 seconds.

PoE used to take 1.5 minutes to load for the first time of the day, now it takes 15 seconds; load screens take under a second, and it's just all around better.

All I need now is a wired connection and better ISP.

The downside of getting a SSD is that you'll never be able to go back to a normal drive. Everything will seem extremely sluggish after that (OS included). :) Hopefully, we'll soon see very large SSD drives at affordable prices.

Definitely go for it, you won't regret it.

SSDs do eliminate the long PoE load times and zone change load times. On a quad core Intel Sandy Bridge 3.4 GHz cpu system with 8 GB ram and Windows 7 64-bit I can boot to a ready to go desktop with all drivers loaded and the AV finished with its processing in under 9 seconds. This is a Corsair 240 GB SSD which is rated at over 500 MB/sec read/write speed on a SATA 3 interface.

Be careful with the newer SSDs that have the smaller NAND memory cells of 22 nm or less size as they will wear out faster. I'm watching the SSD Endurance Experiment tests being done over at The Tech Report:

http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment
and the follow up:
http://techreport.com/review/25681/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-testing-data-retention-at-300tb

to see which drives are showing NAND cell failures first. Right now it looks like Samsung is pushing the NAND memory storage capabilities too hard (bleeding edge of technology) and their drives are showing the most errors to date. The testing is still ongoing and so the final results aren't in yet but all interested in purchasing an SSD drive should read these tech articles before making a buying decision.