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possibly a little extreme, a quick harddisk which is defragmented and not sharing your main drive should be pretty much lag free, but yes SSD's would work ;p
drawback being an affordable drive (64gb) would house a maximum of 16 iso's if you had nothing else on there, but with that awsomeness youd want your pc games and apps on there too xD
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My 64GB SSD cost around 60 Euros, but I have a USB 3.0 500GB portable drive for my emulation needs now. Does the job perfectly, and no slowdown.
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Its probable more the fact the HDD has some kind of broken power management rather than the fact its a HDD.
a common issue on Seagate Laptop drives actually.
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PCSX2 shouldn't give you any better performance just by placing it and the game on a SSD.
The only thing I can imagine causing trouble would be a HDD spin down while playing, as Squall suggested.
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10-06-2011, 04:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-06-2011, 04:15 AM by Livy.)
Putting stuff on an SSD only increase the performance of virus scanning, file compressing/decompressing, media encoding... if your CPU is powerful enough.
In case of PCSX2, games loading time is decreased maybe?
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I was loading up KH2 but the opening movie and ingame is really jittery but after transfering the iso to the ssd, the lag disappeared and the game was really smooth.
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(10-06-2011, 04:15 AM)Livy Wrote: Putting stuff on an SSD only increase the performance of virus scanning, file compressing/decompressing, media encoding... if your CPU is powerful enough.
In case of PCSX2, games loading time is decreased maybe?
Put my OS on mine and it decreased boot time/load time of games/programs, Basically you put anything on a SSD and it speeds it up haha.
Isn't PCSX2 loading based on an actual PS2? Cause the load times seem the same on PCSX2 as on a real PS2. then again.. it's been awhile since i've been on a real PS2 haha
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