Hard drive performance tips for gamers

[James]

Hard drive performance tips for gamers

How to extract maximum performance from your hard drive for gaming

[nelwa]

It is also why modern 500GB and 1TB 7200rpm drives are a relatively cheap way to noticeably increase load times in games.

Due to this, the technique is popular among the more technically advanced gamers who aim to increase loading times.

I think you mean "decrease" loading times...

[addam]

Possibly, unless the loading screen is awesome, or fun.

[weakest_link]

sata3 drive with a sata3 pci card if you dont have sata3 ports on your mobo ... thats an increase in performance i tell you

[m3n4ce]

Running 2 1TB SATA3 Drives in Raid Stripe (0). Makes a massive difference!

[HoboMincer]

I'm no expert but just thinking about it logically, wouldn't the outer platter give faster read times as in one spin of the drive, more distance can be covered.

Otherwise, good article. But I don't even have a SATA3 yet. So I'll just stick to what I got.

[Rain Moodly]

Do you guys keeo your harddrives always on, or do you let windows power them down after awhile? I changed the power settings to keep them always on

[Ellraven]

Do you guys keeo your harddrives always on, or do you let windows power them down after awhile? I changed the power settings to keep them always on

I also changed the power settings to keep them always on. Useful, especially if you are on a file sharing network.

As for the performance of the hard drive, Civilization 5 takes almost 5 minutes to load a saved game and I found no way of speeding that up. A very hard drive intensive game!

[hoektoe]

thanx for advice

[afsrav]

Interesting article.

I'm no expert but just thinking about it logically, wouldn't the outer platter give faster read times as in one spin of the drive, more distance can be covered.

Your statement seems logical, but it is like burning a dvd. The closer the head moves to the inner side of the dvd the faster it writes/reads. (smaller, thus faster area to access)

Do you guys keeo your harddrives always on, or do you let windows power them down after awhile? I changed the power settings to keep them always on

+1 Rain Moodly