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I have mine as a secondry drive with just ArmA installed on it.

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I used to run the OS and game off an HDD and the game addons from a Kingston SDD. Worked a treat til it went wonky with a flat 3mb/s for all reads and writes.

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Yes, it is possible and beneficial to install ARMA on a SSD. (You should uninstall and reinstall rather than move an existing installation)

The Windows cache should still be on HDD I think.

As for that one. I suggest looking at several reviews to make sure the transfer rates are good. SSD's do vary in performance so make sure to get a good one.

I have the OCZ Vertex 30Gb which works well enough tho there are faster ones now.

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I have installed ArmA on OCZ Revo 120GB for PCIe, and i am very happy with it.

It's not exactly the cheapest choice, but it was worth the money.

And i will definitely buy another one for the OS (but i want to upgrade my computer first, so the new SSD will have to wait).

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OCZ Vertex2, 120GB ( faster write speeds than the Intel competitors. )

i run my OS, ArmA & Adobe master collection on it.

... All i need now is a 8GHz cpu ;)

Edited by jerryhopper

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OCZ Vertex2, 120GB ( faster write speeds than the Intel competitors. )

i run my OS, ArmA & Adobe master collection on it.

... All i need now is a 8GHz cpu ;)

Yeah, I was looking for one of those things. But I want a SAS 6G variant, and I still need a SAS 6G controller which aren't easy to come by. :(

But I assume SATA already satisfies your needs?

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Yes, it is possible and beneficial to install ARMA on a SSD. (You should uninstall and reinstall rather than move an existing installation)

The Windows cache should still be on HDD I think.

Is there a reason for an uninstall/reinstall rather than a manual move?

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its easier, unless you know how to change the paths and some reg stuff.

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its easier, unless you know how to change the paths and some reg stuff.

Use a program like Application Mover, moved Arma 2 over to my Vertex 2 today, no issues.

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OCZ's Sandforce based drives are excellent (Agility 2, Vertex 2 etc), as are Crucial's C300s.

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OCZ's Sandforce based drives are excellent (Agility 2, Vertex 2 etc), as are Crucial's C300s.

Yeah cause they don't slow with age it seems.

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Yeah cause they don't slow with age it seems.

They will eventually but long after they find their way into a landfill or tech museum :D

Edited by BangTail

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its easier, unless you know how to change the paths and some reg stuff.

Ah, OK, 'cos that's what I did :) I went digging about in the registry & changed the paths :D

Works fine so far.

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i have 2 Crucial C300 in raid 0.

i dont regret 1 second on getting them. after putting the os & arma on thouse ssd disk it was like a new computer.

and DO NOT PUT THE PAGEFILE ON THE SSD DISK. you will kill them. or a more presice way. ther lifespan will drastically reduce

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I'm pretty sure the same is true of whatever drive you put it on.

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I'm pretty sure the same is true of whatever drive you put it on.

umm. well all disk will die eventually

the ssd drastically reduces its w/r speed much much faster than a hdd, if you put the pagefile there.

well i learned the hard way.

im not doing the same mistake with thise disks.

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