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Originally Posted by Mark_Weston I got 2 SSD's and 2 HDD's I use my main SSD for windows, and softwares, second SSD for heavy games such as BF4, ArmA 3, etc. and HDD for the rest. In other words use your SSD for your "good" games. You don't need to speed up loading for SA-MP. Unless you have a 1TB SSD. (gonna get it soon ya should do it as well)

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Originally Posted by rymax99 SATA is an interface. In a perfect world, SSD's would be priced like HDD's, 1 TB for around $50, but that is simply not the case. In general, anything that requires faster than HDD speeds (usually around 100 MB/s) would benefit from a SSD. It's a simple principle, if something requires more performance than something can provide, then everything will slow down. Back to the question - I would install my OS on the SSD, any reasonably sized programs that I frequently use/rely on such as a web browser and what not, maybe a few games if they're of a reasonable size, etc. You get the point. If you're recording to a HDD then yeah, it'd make sense to drop frames if the HDD can't keep up, but most 7200 RPM HDD's can maintain at LEAST 90 MB/s write speed. My WD black maintains around 130-140 MB/s sustained write speeds. You can try using one of the various disk benchmarking utilities out there to benchmark the drives in question - if one is too slow to record to, it's likely that there's a serious issue with it, I'd start by backing up any crucial data. Apart from replacing it, you can try switching the SATA wire, the SATA port it's using, etc.

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Originally Posted by ****** If the bottleneck is recording, leave the games on the HDD where they are and just record to the SSD. Or the thing I do is use two HDDs in RAID (RAID 0 if you want write performance) for more capacity and speed. Remember - SSDs have limited writes, so should be mostly used read-only to prolong their life.

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Originally Posted by Mauzen Theres a noticeable difference when having the OS on the SSD. Games on a SSD also load up a bit faster, but I just got one game on it. A SSD's lifetime strongly depends on how much you write to it. Recording videos to it is like smoking, with every recorded video the ssd's deaths comes a bit closer, especially when its uncompressed and long. I know its greedy to get a SSD just to barely use it, but actually I dont even think recording on the SSD will be much faster, it would be rather sane to put the OS and stuff on the SSD, and so reduce the load of the HDD to get more bandwidth for video recording. You should also check the SATA version. Theres SATA 2, which still is the most common, but SSDs wont have a much higher bandwidth, because it just transfers up to 300MB/s. SATA 3 gets up to 600MB/s fast, so this is what you want to have for a SSD. Even on SATA 2 a SSD would still have fast access times, so it would be good for the OS and swap file, but pretty much useless for video recording, so you should check what kind of SATA ports you got.

I don't care about loading times, I just don't want to start getting 20 fps while recording...

So aslong as my recording destination and my fraps/obs are set/installed to my ssd, i won't lose as much frames like I did back on my laptop?