Hello, i copied WoW from HDD to SSD. I thought that load times and UI reload will be much faster, but they are not much different. Loading times dont bother me that much, because i am not in combat. But sometimes my keybinds and cooldowns disappear and i need to reload UI as quick as possible. But reloading is between 15-25 seconds, which can lead to dying in raids, BGs or dungeons. I saw some youtubers and they reload ui in seconds, like in 2-5 seconds.
SSD is fully optimized with current drivers and firmware(Crucial MX500-1 TB). One thing i am not sure-i disabled indexing on drive, where WoW is installed. Can it be a problem? Benchmark speeds and latency are OK.
I dont know what i can do to fix it? What i can try is disabling all addons and then enabling it one by one. Or is there any command or something that can help me?
There seems to be a perpetuation of a myth that SSD’s are infinitely faster than Spinning Rust drives.
It’s true that they are faster, but they are not hugely noticeably faster than a modern Spinning Rust drive under normal usage. Sure they are significantly faster when being benchmarked, but in real world use, the difference isn’t really noticeable.
That said, there was a user on the old forums who discovered that the latest Windows 10 update was making a change to SSD configurations that really slowed them down a lot. The fix was also very simple, unfortunately, I can’t find the post.
Maybe you could try digging around over there yourself, you might have more luck than I.
However their manner of operation doesn’t change the fact that unless you are making a lot of reads or writes, the data you’re accessing at any given time, is too small for the difference to be noticeable.
Literally the only time I notice any difference between an Samsung Evo 970 Pro SSD and a 7200RPM WD Black “Spinning Rust”, is during bootup, and even then its just a difference of 15 secs vs 45 secs from power on to desktop.
Depending on how many addons you use it will take longer for me it takes just a few seconds but I don’t tend to have many addons installed if you are one of the people that uses loads it will take longer.