HDD Question

I am currently using a 1 Terabyte HDD (Hard Disk Drive) manufactured by WD (Western Digital) and don't get me wrong, HDDs are great, especially when in large storage space, HDD are even better than a regular SSD in some instances depending on what activity you are performing. One thing that a SSD has over a HDD though is game performance, before the SSD started playing a major role in the gaming scene, the big question was about what CPU, GPU, and Memory you're using. Now I understand that this still matters and plays a major part in game performance but so doesn't your drive with it's R-W (read/write) speeds.

I currently have a powerful PC for running games, but one major downfall is that I am using a HDD instead of a SSD. I play games that also use variable maps depending on the server, meaning that your drive has to download, load, compress, decompress, and perform a ton of actions just to load into a server. This is very stressful on a HDD, and a SSD using a NAND Flash instead of a physical disk means it can perform these actions at double, triple, and sometimes quadruple speeds. I play a game called Rust and loading speeds on a HDD are horrendous, now this can take up to 15-20 minutes sometimes, but common statement is to use a SSD because you can usually load in within 30 seconds - 2 minutes.

Now my issue is that I am only 16, hopefully going to get a job soon so I can afford a SSD, but in the meantime I am broke and I can not afford a SSD, I was wondering are there any ways I can give my PC a boost in helping the HDD process events faster that way I can load into my games quicker.

I know how a lot of common drives work, most common being Disk, and NAND Flash. One piece of hardware we all end up using once in our lives is a device that is essentially a tiny/miniature SSD, you can find these by the name of a Flash Drive, Thumb Drive, "USB", USB Drive. These all mean the same thing, the technical name for these are Flash Drives, this is because they mainly run off of a NAND Flash, and that's where everything is computed.

Now knowing this I attempted to throw Rust into a folder on my Flash Drive. I plugged my Flash Drive into the most common and powerful USB interface today USB 3.0 , and tried to load it up, surprisingly it ran so much better... in some areas, now I knew this would happen but I was hoping that the areas I needed to be quicker were not poorly affected, unfortunately I expected them to be poorly affected. The few things that did load quicker were textures, response time, and a few other minor things. So while it improves some areas, it eradicates others and most of this is due to USB capabilities. The drives we use today are commonly using the SATA (Serial AT Attachment) interface or PCIe (PCI Express)interface and this is what allows us to reach extremely fast Read and Write speeds.

I realize I went into depth a bit and it wasn't really necessary but I thought I would provide my current knowledge and explain what I have/haven't tried so far. I was wondering if there's anything I could do to speed up my HDDs Read and Write speeds and give it even a minor boost. I have already given it a minor boost with increasing the Virtual Memory. I am also using a spare Flash Drive with Windows ReadyBoost even though this won't help much.

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Simply Put - How can I speed up my HDD and give it a minor-tremendous boost.

Submitted February 10, 2019 at 02:07AM by reheight http://bit.ly/2SlVuA6 via TikTokTikk