Simple Question

[IRAQIGHOST]

Hi

I have Ryzen 5 3600 and 16GB of RAM and HDD 2TB

If I update my PC to

Ryzen 7 5700x and 32GB RAM and M.2 1TB


Compressing games will be faster or does it not affect anything?

Specially HDD to M.2

[Masquerade]

Do NOT make repacks on an SSD - you are gonna kill it so fcking fast.

More RAM will allow you to use a greater dictionary.

[KaktoR]

A bit faster yes.

However I strongly recommend to do compression things not on SSD at all because of life time decreasing in data write operations.

[IRAQIGHOST]

Thanks guys

[JustFun]

Yes, it will be faster, but like others have mentioned dont do it on SSD, you will kill it really fast.

BTW If your dont need your old 3600, I am willing to take it

[IRAQIGHOST]

Originally Posted by JustFun

Yes, it will be faster, but like others have mentioned dont do it on SSD, you will kill it really fast.

BTW If your dont need your old 3600, I am willing to take it

LOL if you where in Iraq I will give it to you

[L33THAK0R]

I don't know much about compression but I can say I do know a bit about hardware, and honestly, having gone from using HDDs to repack versus a dedicated array of SSDs, I'd honestly recommend repacking on SSDs. Now this example is anecdotal and my own personal experience but I still think it has some value to the discussion.

Most modern cell arrays can endure a fairly insane amount of write operations especially for the price, now for obvious reasons I won't say the models I bought but most 1TB drives can easily endure at least 1PB of write operations to the overall NAND array, for those of you who don't know, modern storage controllers are very efficient at distributing the wear evenly amongst the cells of an array, and are a far cry from the SSDs of yore.

Now in terms of my own experiences, to date I have written over 150TB across my repacking-specific drives, and I'm yet to see any degradation in performance for read/write operations. Now compared to my old setup of HDDs, ranging from 2TB to 4TB (all new, from reputable brands), I noticed pretty significant drop offs in performance for write operations and seek times after only around a year of use. And yes before anyone asks I did de-fragment the drives regularly. Finally, in terms of cost a 1TB drive, at least in the US according to PCPartPicker, a half decent 1TB SSD goes for comfortably under US$100, like the MX500 which is only going for a slick $70.

Especially for repacks with a large amount of loose files I'd recommend repacking on SSDs over HDDs any day of the week.

[shazzla]

The more RAM u have,the more threads you can use to speed up compression...

[IRAQIGHOST]

Originally Posted by shazzla

The more RAM u have,the more threads you can use to speed up compression...

Thanks