Wow, I am very fortunate to have attracted this many intelligent board users so quickly. For the record, I enjoy civil debates that are based in fact, not arguing/flaming/fanboying/trolling. If we are willing to admit this or not : it's the way we all learn, by often being proven wrong.
You see, this right here is exactly why Engineers typically can not function in a 'normal' social setting. Think of it.. how many arguments based on a REAL LIFE interaction are based only in fact... with no arguing, flaming, 'fanboying', and trolling being done?
That's right.. NONE. Yes you can argue that some 'official' debates... whether political or otherwise might meet your criteria, but really all they do is find clever ways to do exactly that - and the fact that those kinds of discussions aren't open to everyone adds the the unrealistic approach of such.
Engineers simply possess an "I'm better than you because I possess knowledge and people listen to me!" (don't worry, pilots often have the same) attitude and while it MAY be true to an extent, the truth is that most of them have no CLUE how to function when it comes to translating their thoughts and ideas in a manner in which the average 'Joe' can understand. I'd like to see Zeromajin try to become successful in a sales environment... or a customer service position... or God forbid work in a Customer Complaints department! I'd be willing to bet that it just wouldn't happen!
I mean just look at this thread. There is a user that asked about three options available to him/her and of which of these three options are a cost-effective means in which to improve the performance of Aces High. It really is that simple! I noted that an SSD would not be a cost effective option, and also that it's still a developing technology with 'issues' and I got SLAMMED by not only my redundancy in my saying "SSD Drive", but also in the fact that someone else did not agree with my statement that SSDs still have 'issues'.
Zero also forgot to take into account what exactly I meant when I said they have 'issues'. Yes, I still maintain that they are not as reliable as traditional drives, but I have also heard a lot of nightmares from 'normal' computer users who tried to install and use SSDs with massive failures shortly after. Perhaps the drive was of poor quality. Perhaps they didn't properly configure it. Perhaps there was a setting that they SIMPLY DID NOT KNOW THEY HAD TO MAKE, but regardless one has to admit that SSDs require a lot more configuration and knowledge to maintain as compared to a traditional drive, even if it's a 'simple' matter of configuring two drives. Well that still makes things more confusing, doesn't it?
So by 'issues' I was factoring in not only technical information, but also social and economical details as well... but I can see how an engineer could easily simply not consider that to be a factor at all, since a 'non-educated' argument is of no interest to them.
I'm sure there are many teenagers/young adults that are extremely impressed at the proposition of an SSD speeding up their systems, and I'm sure that an SSD helps Zero out with all of the massive 3d rendering and video rendering he performs on his monster system, but the simple truth is that an SSD will NOT benefit the VAST MAJORITY of computer users out there, and will only complicate matters and aggravate the end users more. Even if it were just as easy and reliable (and inexpensive) as a standard hard drive, an SSD still wouldn't make that much of a difference in system performance.
It's quite obvious to me that Zero needs to learn his audience and post accordingly. Aces High is a game that is comprised of mostly middle-aged adult males using less than state-of-the-art systems. While there are a considerable number of young adults who play as well the simple truth is that recommending an SSD to improve AH performance would be like recommending a Ferrari to a little blue-haired grandma who only uses her car to drive 2 blocks to bingo and 2 blocks to the grocery store once a week.
I should note that I am a 35 year old Automotive Master Technician, but also with MCSE Certification (2k track FWIW) and also that I turned down a Full Boat Engineering scholarship at UM-Rolla as a kid (looking back it wasn't a wise choice but I didn't really see it as a choice I could make at the time). I try to stay in-touch with computer technology, even building them quite frequently as a hobby. I note this because I DO get to see both sides of the fence. Computer technology is not new to me and while I don't know everything about it, I feel that I know enough to make an 'educated' guess as to what technologies are actually going to be useful, and what technologies are not.
With that being noted after all of the arguments and discussions that have been made, no one has addressed the OP's questions in a long time. As a matter of fact, he hasn't even been back to contribute... so being that this has become way off topic.. perhaps it should be considered to lock this due to a violation of Rule #2.
(Or would it now be a violation of Rule #5 due to me mentioning the Rule #2 violation?)
