Super speedy drives
  • simple@lemm.ee
    123·
    1 year ago

    I’m a bit baffled that some people still use HDDs considering how cheap SSDs have gotten. You can get a 2TB M.2 for around $100. If you’ve got the specs for new games, there’s no excuse.

    • ono@lemmy.ca
      51·
      1 year ago

      It’s simple: My SSD can only fit so many 100-300 GB games, while I already have hard drives with plenty of free space.

      (Also, running Linux means that an SSD doesn’t help game performance much anyway, outside of initial loading time.)

      You can get a 2TB M.2 for around $100.

      More like $150-200 if you want a good one.

      If you’ve got the specs for new games, there’s no excuse.

      What a very privileged perspective. I don’t have much money, but most new games are playable on my existing hardware if I tune the graphics settings. I would rather spend what money have on things like food and heat. (Or if the basics are covered, then maybe a newish game.)

      • ftbd@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        Just to share my recent experience: I found that games of that size compress quite well. So if you’re using a filesystem like btrfs that supports transparent compression, you can fit much more onto your disks, at the cost of slightly slower reads and writes (M.2 ssd). With my HDD, compression actually increased write speed!

    • zhenbo_endle@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m a bit baffled that some people still use HDDs considering how cheap SSDs have gotten. You can get a 2TB M.2 for around $100. If you’ve got the specs for new games, there’s no excuse.

      I don’t know why you got some downvotes. Buying an SSD to store the latest games is much more cheaper than buying a GPU. If one already has a powerful GPU, I don’t know why they consider an SSD “not affordable”

    • rasensprenger@feddit.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      I can get a 10TB HDD for under 250€, and there are some technical advantages. For example, if you have an ssd lying around unpowered, it will lose data much quicker than magnetic storage

      • 30p87@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        HDD as data storage is fine, but neither will you need 10 TB of storage for games nor will it lie around for 10 years or so.

    • ares35@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      i don’t play ‘new’ games, i don’t have the hardware for them. most my gear is older salvaged stuff that didn’t cost me anything to get. between constant rent increases and the cost of groceries these days, i simply can’t afford to upgrade unless i get lucky and salvage something useful.

    • datavoid@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      SSD for newish games, OS, and programs, HDD for videos, photos, music, and old games.

  • TwoCubed@feddit.de
    6·
    1 year ago

    So what? I accidentally installed Baldur’s Gate 3 on a hard disk and it was unplayable, because the assets took ages to load. Transferred everything over to an NVMe drive and it’s butter smooth. Just don’t put anything that requires interaction on a hard disk and get with the times and plop in an SSD. Best bang for your buck in terms of an upgrade with a massively noticable effect.

    • Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      1 year ago

      Too true. Upgrading to NVMe was the most noticeable speed boost I’ve experienced all at once in my history of building my own rigs. It’s was like black magic. Wouldn’t shut up about it to all my friends for a month.