Load times- wow...

[madkiwi]

Originally Posted by HundertzehnGustav

siriously...

GWX+ MFM (no skins)
HDD: Western Digital WD800 (75GB... 3.5inch) 7200RPM, driver date 2006, suspected build Date late 2005

loading time...
45 to 50 seconds game time, then clickong through "load career" and other menues 30 seconds... then loading the gam,e in the wilhelmshafen Harbor... 120 seconds...

3 minutes or a bit more, from SHIIIcommander to being on deck of the Submarine.

Ur doing somfing wrong...?
ugh? *puzzled*

My in-harbor load times are less than 20 seconds- we are all (I believe) referring to mid-mission saved-game loads. Those seem to take forever...

sublynx- My Sandisk Extreme 120 GB was $120 on sale in April, now it is on amazon for $97 (the 240 GB is only $168). The hardest part about replacing the factory 5400 rpm drive in my brand new laptop was reinstalling Windows and my drivers. I put the removed drive in a USB enclosure and now have a 500 GB backup drive- actually about 450 GB while still having my original restore files and OS there.

SSDs are mainstream now, no longer fringe toys for the early adopters. It was only 3 or 4 years ago that spinning drives over 200GB dropped below $200, I think the price/GB for SSDs is more than acceptable now. Reliability far exceeds mechanical drives. The only real bad thing about them I know is that if you have a failure nothing is recoverable. However, while data on a platter "may" be recoverable, have you priced what one of those data-recovery outfits charge? Let's just say that my $3,000 is better spent elsewhere, like on backup drives!