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How is performance, especially with regards to load times, if your steam library is mounted remotely? I ask because the difference between a SSD and a hard dri
by Macha 4y ago
How is performance, especially with regards to load times, if your steam library is mounted remotely?
I ask because the difference between a SSD and a hard drive can be massive in this regards, so I'd be really interested to know if the network latency is also a comparable hit.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoI'm not a hardcore gamer by any means, but I really wonder how much influence drives actually have on games. My gaming computer had an old SATA SSD (Samsung 840 Evo IIRC). Some games took ages to load (particularly Fallout 4). I switched to a much faster NVME drive, and subjectively, it's not any faster loading games. I'd say this was a very underwhelming purchase.
- Macha 4y agoThere's certainly diminishing returns between "an SSD" and "a faster SSD" (unless the slower one is DRAMless or QLC), but hard drive to SSD is still a big gulf
- eminence32 4y agoThe performance is fine. It's been years since I ran my steam library on HDD, so I don't have anything really to compare to (except my own expectations and impatience). The NAS is running 7 SSD drives in zfs raid, and exports a 1TB volume over iSCSI, via a dedicated 10GBe fiber link. Anecdotally, I will often boot into games faster than friends who have a local SSD (so I think this means that I've gotten disk perf to be "good enough" that other hardware components start to dominate things like load times)