SSD And The PS3: Is It Worth It?
I'll admit that I tend to buy into the performance over cost game when it comes to video games. At one time I was more than slightly addicted to City of Heroes (pre-pvp nerf) and I actually went so far as to buy 4 160GB SATA drives so I could make a Raid 0 to get past the infamous city load lag. Much to my dismay I was out somewhere around $700 and only saw a modest performance improvement over my old drive setup.
Now that I'm older and skeptical, I'm less eager to jump on the solid state drive bandwagon. NAND flash is a great invention, and it provides modest access times, but how much does it actually improve performance? Some of those folks over at Gamespot asked this very question. They installed and benchmarked three games that provide drive install support on the Playstation 3 (GTA IV, Assassin's Creed and Devil May Cry 4), and the results help to justify my skepticism.
As far as write speeds go, SSD turns out to be completely decimated by it's magnetic platter medium. This is not a major shock as flash does take considerably longer to write than it takes to read. As far as read speeds go, boot times seem to range from 5 ~ 10 seconds faster to boot.
All this seems fairly reasonable. Platter disks performance hit comes from seek times, and since the system is rarely \ never allows multiple processes to access the drive. If you simply must shove a SSD in a system, you should save it for a laptop. Your money is best invested in a bigger magnetic disk.
Solid State Drive Upgrade Report [Gamespot]
Asterick
Posted to Video Games on 9 June 2008
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