ARK dedicated server SSD / SATA 7200 performance ?

[GuDoN ツ]

Hi all

Is there a performance increase that's worthy to mention between a SATA drive and an SSD when hosting an ARK dedicated server?

Thanks!

[crckdns]

yep there is :)
Ark is really enjoying running on SSD. Client and Server, both like it, no, they love it!

[Smikis]

Originally posted by crckdns:

yep there is :)
Ark is really enjoying running on SSD. Client and Server, both like it, no, they love it!

If you are saying server benefits from it you need to provide some proof.. not " they love it"

[GuDoN ツ]

Originally posted by crckdns:

yep there is :)
Ark is really enjoying running on SSD. Client and Server, both like it, no, they love it!

I know the client is a beast with an SSD, but doesn't server load most of the stuff in the RAM?

[SilvaDreams]

It will improve any stutters or slowness when it comes to saving
Though as for performance having a dedicated physx card will make a large difference as it will take some load off the cpu

[GuDoN ツ]

Yup the saving makes sense. The more servers saving the harder the drives will stutter. I believe the rest of the servers are loaded into the ram so perhaps boot up will also be faster as well as updating. I think straight up running shouldn't make a difference though.

That's if I understand what I've learned from trial and error with setting things up

[oXYnary]

Originally posted by SilvaDreams:

It will improve any stutters or slowness when it comes to saving
Though as for performance having a dedicated physx card will make a large difference as it will take some load off the cpu

No it wont, devs have stated the server physx implementation is software only.

[elijahwan]

i don't have any "proof" per se---but i do know that Ark--server and client run better after i moved it to a SSD....so......proof? meh.

stuff loads faster on an ssd---its just logic people.

[crckdns]

Originally posted by Smikis:

Originally posted by crckdns:

yep there is :)
Ark is really enjoying running on SSD. Client and Server, both like it, no, they love it!

If you are saying server benefits from it you need to provide some proof.. not " they love it"

I'm running several servers for development purposes and one public, 2 of them are running on a machine with HDD, one is running on SSD. Worldsave is causing all the time some stutter on the HDD machines, but none I can "feel" on the SSD server. You are right about no "proof", but I have the "feeling" ;p

[GuDoN ツ]

The game has a huge improvement. In terms of importance, to a dedicated server, it uses more and more RAM, HDD is used for saving and such, not constant R/W IO. CPU + RAM

But I decided to go with SSD 250GB instead 1TB SATA just because with the amount of RAM I wouldn't be able to host enough servers to use all that space anyways...

Thanks ! :)