Do the games load faster when only the operating system is on the SSD and the games on HDD?

[SaNz.]

Please only Yes/no answers, i dont want overcomplicated answers :D

Thank you!

[Snow]

Yes, because their saves/settings and stuff like DirectX will be on SSD. Just a bit faster.

[Omega]

Possibly. It really depends. If you have a lot of crap running from C: which is contantly accessing the disk your games can load faster, since it's the only thing using that disk.

Will this make any meaningful difference? Probably not.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Some games wont, unless on the ssd. But yes this config of os and apps on ssd and games on a hdd helps greatly overall. The biggest thing every user will see and notice a real world difference in is having os on sdd improves everything the PC does and loads. It's a night vs day difference as os on hdd is the biggest problem back before ssds as this was mainly what slowed everything down for the most part as a hdd can't multitask data very well, something that's no sweat to an ssd.

[Washell]

Vs OS on HDD, games on SSD: no
Vs OS on SSD, games on SSD: no
Vs OS on HDD, games on HDD: yes
It's a bit more nuanced than that but:

Originally posted by caxxl:

only Yes/no answers

[Bad 💀 Motha]

OS on HDD will always create a system wide botteneck, so never do that.

[r.linder]

It's hard to give a simple "yes or no" answer when it depends on what's running, specifically.

OS should always be on an SSD. Games, however, depends on the game itself. Many games won't need it, but others will.

[_I_]

it depends on the game

game installed on hdd vs ssd will make very little difference if
games that use streaming or compressed data, do not use the disk as much as cpu/ram
games that use large uncompressed files can all be read fast enough if the data is defragged

game installed on ssd will be faster if
game uses large uncompressed files and has loads of disk usage while loading/playing
(gta5 is a good example of this)

either way os on the ssd will make a bigger difference, improved system performance and driver/dll loads will be near instant, instant browser load, boot time in under 15sec

[Carlsberg]

Correct me if i am wrong but i do not think you can read and write data at the same time to the same drive. Two drives mean two data paths which can be simultaneous, one drive would mean more wait time while cpu is either reading or writing.

[_I_]

hdds have cache to store small amounts of data to be written/read to/from disk
older drives 8-16mb, newer are 64-125mb+

not at the same time, but pretty close, burst rate can max the sata3 controller for that amount

[Omega]

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

Correct me if i am wrong but i do not think you can read and write data at the same time to the same drive. Two drives mean two data paths which can be simultaneous, one drive would mean more wait time while cpu is either reading or writing.

There are more variables which matter. Such as the speed of the disk and interface and how much the disk is actually used by things other then your game.

And more even complex variables can play a role such as parts of the disk which are cached in your system memory and the OS temporarily storing data in the memory instead of writing it to the disk immediately.

[Washell]

Originally posted by Carlsberg:

Correct me if i am wrong but i do not think you can read and write data at the same time to the same drive. Two drives mean two data paths which can be simultaneous, one drive would mean more wait time while cpu is either reading or writing.

Queuing for an ssd would still be faster than waiting for a hdd.