The Sims 3: Laggy game/low game performance

@Nika444 To maintain proper free space on your system drive you should install games and packs to an alternate storage device (your D🙂. Because you have a small system drive you will have to maintain this procedure to maintain free space on the system drive (C🙂. The applications (games) on D: will not benefit from the ssd. If you get 2 - 1Tb high performance (WD black) and raid them, the performance would be close to having a ssd drive. That's 2Tb of storage that boots about one sip of coffee slower then a ssd and overall performance is pretty good with out spending a fortune. Most gamers don't want to spend the time maintaining a small ssd (checking free space, installing to alternate locations, etc.). Most gamers just want to install the game and play. There is a read/write limit to the chips used in ssds and nobody really knows when that limit will be hit. IMHO ssds are a nice toy for people who want the latest and greatest and want to experiment but they are not ready for the average consumer who just wants to play games. We can argue about this but I would not sell you a gaming computer with a 240Gb ssd as a system drive. In the long run it just doesn't work. I'm usually upgrading the video card LONG before I have any issues with the storage devices. Should you use hdds? That all depends on your pocket book. High density ssds tend to get pricey. For a user who uses one computer for everything I would recommend a 1Tb drive (500Gb minimum) you can get for $50 to $75 usd. A 1Tb ssd will cost about $280 usd. That would increase the price of your computer about $175 usd. Is the gain in performance worth 4 to 5 times the higher price of a component?

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