WYSIWYG On Solid State Hard Drive?

[tom_the_LD]

Hi all,

 

Just wondering if there'd be any NOTICEABLE improvements if WYSIWYG was run on a Solid State Hard Drive? I'm only interested if the improvements would be highly noticeable - or are you just as well off installing it on a normal 7200RPM hard drive?

 

 

Cheers!

 

 

 

Tom

[niclights]

I don't see how. I would say the HDD is of very little importance to Wyg. Faster processing is what it wants. Solid state drives main advantage is reliability/durability and perhaps boot/application launch speed.

[DonkiDonki]

I guess it depends on the size of your project, certainly when I work with detailed cad files the hard drive seems to be in almost constant use, whether that's down to Wyg or windows it stands to reason that a faster hard drive would help.

 

Possibly worth it your trying to record video walk-through type stuff.

 

I keep windows, Wyg and Fraps (my choice for video capture) on independant drives which seems to help when capturing the more ambitious stuff.

[peternewman]

I'd be fairly confident adding more memory (if possible) would be a better option. I can't imagine Wyg would write to disk (apart from for saving) if it could store what it needed to in memory. Also memory is a lot faster than even SSD disks.

[merlin24]

Wyg can use a maximum of 2GB RAM at the moment before using the page file system. The important factors will be the speed of the processor and the Graphics card. Good quality memory will also help.

 

Andy