SSD and HDD Split

[JRX1138]

I have a new computer build with 250GB M.2 SSD (largest I can afford at this time) and WD Black 5TB HDD. I need to place emulators, roms, bios, etc in different partitions. What should be on the SSD to get best performance. Could really use the advice. Thanks

 

Edited December 5, 2017 by JRX1138

[neil9000]

I personally have my Launchbox program folder on my ssd, i keep all the images there as well as all my bigbox themes and such. I keep my game video snaps on a HDD elsewhere on my system.

[JRX1138]

Do you keep your emulators and roms in the Launchbox program folder also?

Edited December 5, 2017 by JRX1138

[neil9000]

I keep my emulators there, but all my roms and game videos are on another HDD.

[Lordmonkus]

I have all mine on a standard run of the mill 2 TB hard drive, nothing fancy at all and performance is perfectly fine.

[JRX1138]

Thanks, that gives me a place to start.

[neil9000]

1 minute ago, Lordmonkus said:

I have all mine on a standard run of the mill 2 TB hard drive, nothing fancy at all and performance is perfectly fine.

Yep, wasn't saying otherwise, just stating my personal system, I have all the heavy stuff like vids and roms/isos on my hdd, but I have the program on my ssd for snappines. I have also run the whole thing from a USB 3.0 external drive and that was also pretty great.

[Lordmonkus]

In my personal experience SSDs really only improve performance when it comes to Windows boot up times when Windows is installed on one or the loading of larger games such as GTA V, Battlefield maps and other large open world games like MMOs (ex: WoW), keep in mind this is the just the loading times and not the actual frame rates once loaded.

[JRX1138]

The game performance is what I was looking at.

[Lordmonkus]

Just now, JRX1138 said:

The game performance is what I was looking at.

Then it won't matter at all.

Edit: That all gets cached into the systems RAM anyways.

[neil9000]

Just now, JRX1138 said:

The game performance is what I was looking at.

For roms, it makes no difference.

[neil9000]

But I personally like a image/video rich Bigbox theme, so I keep most of that on my fastest drive, but as I said a USB 3.0 is just as good most of the time.

[JRX1138]

Thank you both so much for the help.  I can put my favorite themes on the ssd if I have room and everything else on my hdds. It is what I needed to know.

[neil9000]

2 minutes ago, JRX1138 said:

Thank you both so much for the help.  I can put my favorite themes on the ssd if I have room and everything else on my hdds. It is what I needed to know.

Correct, but you may need to specify where the other media is, videos for example, Launchbox will look to a specific folder, you just need to point it elsewhere. Which is very easy to do.

[JRX1138]

I've been watching to many videos. I started with a hybrid 2.5 Seagate.  then i saw another that said to be sure and keep emulators on another partition. So I started about three times on my laptop.  Just wanted to get it right before going to the desktop.

Edited December 5, 2017 by JRX1138

[neil9000]

Where they our tutorials?

 

[JRX1138]

Yeah this is where I started. ETA PRIME is who got me started on Launchbox. I should have just stayed here, but using Rocketlauncher which I am also new to sounded interesting.

[JRX1138]

AS the saying goes, I know just enough to get screwed up. I learn at every mistake.

[neil9000]

I have to be careful what I say, but I don't need RL for anything I do on Launchbox. If its for you, great . Not for me though.

[Lordmonkus]

Same here, RocketLauncher is one of those things very few of the mods around here use so any questions regarding that will have to be answered by people who actually use it.