Thread: Install FG and AppData on a SSD?
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July 7th, 2018, 01:39 #11
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July 7th, 2018, 09:13 #12
In the (unlikely) event of memory depletion on this 16GB machine, SSD will significantly reduce the performance penalty related to swapping
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July 7th, 2018, 18:55 #13
For long term survivability, it was recommended to keep at least 15% of a HDD free for defragmentation and other house cleaning. For an SSD, you no longer do defragmentation, but the flash nature does mean it has a more limited number of write cycles than a HDD (before failure). However, you won't really run into that problem unless you also run the SSD at nearly full capacity and do high volumes of delete and write. So it a best practice to keep an SSD at 30% free space.
I used to write low level drivers for flash based storage a decade or so back. The technology has way better performance now, but also way better controllers to handle the flash erase/write durability and maximize lifespan of the hardware. Most will now spread the writes around uniformly on the hardware to prolong life span. For that to work well, you need to leave more free space.
The read performance of SSD is much higher than a HDD and the seek performance is all but instantaneous. This makes loading files very fast, so a PC will boot in 10-20 seconds instead of 3 - 5 minutes. Opening/starting any program will definitely see an improvement, but once in DRAM, the SSD is no longer going to help (until the next file system access).
High performance HDD sustained read speed is around 210MBps, Sata SSDs are around 550 MBps for read speed these days. Moving into the M.2 form (particularly NVMe) can gain performance of 3200 MBps. However the motherboard needs to support the NVMe format for the fastest performance.
Most manufacturers of SSDs also have some maintenance software that you can install. This will check firmware and upgrade it as well as give you an overall health indication showing how much 'life' expectancy is left. Since you also frequently back up your computer, having a failure is usually only a minor inconvenience (a great time to put faster and larger SSD in). Combined with the monitor software, there really is no down side to an SSD, except maybe cost relative to a HDD.
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July 7th, 2018, 19:34 #14
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Ok sorry to rez this thread but wanted to ask a question. Ok here is the situation. I currently use a laptop for running fg on. I often take it with me to prep campaign stuff while I'm at work. I have recently built a desktop. Would it be ok to store/run from a portable hard drive (i.e. passport)? So I can work on fg campaign stuff while away from home on laptop but when I'm home connect the portable drive to desktop to run sessions. Thank in advance.
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March 30th, 2020, 03:03 #16
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March 30th, 2020, 03:36 #17
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Ok thanks. Yes always do those things. Thank you for the advice
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