I just tried to installing ESO on my SSD, but its only 80gb (and its lost quite a bit being 4yrs old) so the 60gb (WOOOOOOOOT?) wont fit unless I remove the OS.

Think its worth it?

If you have to move your OS to a regular HD, then no. Usually, MMOs don't benefit all that much from SSDs. They help a bit, but it's not like you're hitting loading screens constantly that the ssd would make go away. Your OS, however, you deal with every day, all the time.

Will the game require 60gb at launch thou? Its a rather massive size for any game.

I have not noticed a difference between it on my HDD vs SSD myself

I wouldn't on a small drive, you'll appreciate booting up in 6 seconds more than having your load screens disappear a second earlier. I created a 100 GB partition for games on my SSD that I'll be using for ESO and whatever game I'm currently playing on the single player side. I do notice better load times than my machine that doesn't have an SSD in it, but it's not critical.

SSD makes OS's more efficient but you're not going to notice anything playing an MMO on a SSD rather than a HDD.

Anyway after checking how big damage there was on my SSD I think its unlikely that the 60gb will fit even if I remove the OS from it.

I'll prolly get a new one in a month or so.

No, I do not think it is worth degrading your system overall work time for the game time.

No, in your situation, you will get more benefit from Windows being on the SSD. As others have said, the main benefit of the SSD to ESO will be in loading zones, which you don't do as frequently as in a single player game. If I were getting low on space on mine, I wouldn't think twice to move it to the HDD.

the game should only be 30.2gb or there abouts. i would check to make sure you dont have the EU and US clients both installed as that is a cause to have 60+gb of folder. there is a very good chance you may have botht he EU client and the US client thats why its so big. there are a few other threads on this forum that has information pertaining to this exact thing. just thought i would bring this to your attention. also on the SSd i wouldnt install ESO on one right yet as they will be changing stuff so much that it will eat up space fast.

The difference between HDD and SSD isn't as noticable as it is with many games, there's not nearly as much loading going on anyway.

SSDs are pretty cheap now, it's even worth getting a reburbished one, just keep an eye out at places with daily bargains (I picked up a 512GB for ￡150 from scan.co.uk's Today Only offers for my gaming rig).

Hmmm.

When I saw "SSD" I naturally thought of http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11111/111119138/3455587-ssd.jpg.

As for me, my MacBook Pro will be using a hybrid drive, while my wife will favor the built in solid-state drive on her MS Surface Pro.

From what I've heard loading times are reduced, gameplay won't benefit.

This isn't true at all. While the loading screens that result from connecting to the server wont be affected, any loading the game has to do from your HD will be - and this game has a ton of stuff written to your HD. When you start getting into really fast SSD's, you notice a huge difference. The loading screen for me to go from an exterior to interior area is too fast to even start reading the tips that display on the loading screen.

Is there no option for getting a 2nd drive? I started out with my games on an SSD and later switched the OS drive to SSD. Whether it is worth it or not is all about how much you pay and how free your money is. Later in the year, SSDs should be getting cheaper, might be better to wait 3-5 months and see where the prices are. Might even get a roomy 240GB drive for under $75bucks soon. I'm really shocked to see the 500GB down to $250 range.

I think part of the question is, do you get any real bang for the buck? So you load in 3 sec I load in 6, maybe a 5400 rpm drive loads in 10secs (maybe). Once a fair amount of that data is already cached, the difference between HDD and SSD becomes even less noticeable. Maybe if someone is playing on a low end GPU and bare minimum of memory they will see a huge difference. For a system that meets and exceeds requirements, I think the difference will only be barely noticeable. During the last beta, just for a test, I played a while using a 5400rpm USB drive, the initial loads were painfully slow compared to my Samsung SSD games drive. But after playing for about 30 mins, I couldn't tell if I was still playing on USB or SSD.

The install size doesn't equate to more loading times. A lot of data in landscape MMOs is streamed, there is a fairly small load up-front. Most loading occurs when switching between indoors and outdoors, and between vastly different map areas, where there's less sharing between assets. UI assets tend to account for an extremely large portion of the graphics footprint as they have to be stored uncompressed. Audio is typically next in line, and as we all know there is a crapload of audio in ESO.

I play on two machines, one has a fast SSD and the other a fast HDD. The play experience is not very different, I've certainly not though "I need to go in the other room to play on the SSD rig".

I'm going with a compromise - SSHD (HDD with a smaller on-board SSD that acts as a cache)

http://www.seagate.com/au/en/internal-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/desktop-solid-state-hybrid-drive/

My install after the update yesterday is 30.3 gigs. Tbh though I would still just toss it on a decent normal drive.

I run a SSD for the OS and a normal HDD for my games which is 3TB in size.

The game ran fine because its not resource hungry like some other MMO's such as Eve Online or The Secret World.

Not that huge of a difference plus the price and space of a "really fast SSD". My HDD loading screen is almost nil also. So go ahead and pay alot more money for less space and so your loading screen can be a hair faster.

The game needs 60gb which seems to be the max size of the game and the temporal backups while it is patching.

- The game benefits from a SSD (everytime it needs to read data, which is often, a SSD will do it faster), however, it is not mandatory.

- if you have to decide then keep your OS in the SSD, you'll benefit a lot more.