HDD or SSD for games

agnes said:
Yo,

So I have a 500GB SSD specifically for games, and I can only really get a handful on it these days, and I'm terrible for picking random games to play and not sticking to a couple only. And living out in the sticks, deleting and uninstalling is out of the question as it takes an age!

Anyway, I could snap up a 4TB HDD to put alongside the SSD and use the 4TB drive for the majority of games, such as Skyrim, Mass Effect etc, stuff that doesn't really depend upon read speeds. And use the SSD for online games like For Honor, BF1 etc.

Or is it not worth getting a mechanical drive? Will I regret going back to a 7,200rpm drive? It's read is 172mb/s, which, once you take the marketing guff off. It's realistically something like 150mb/s.

Unsure!
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Use the HDD for backup purposes but always run from SSD. Also if 500GB isn't enough get a SSD, you don't have to buy a very fast one. Because the significant majority of the SSDs are way faster than the fastest HDD.
Is annoying also these days the SSD prices are almost double of what they were just few months ago :(
 
I use a handful of SSDs for Lightroom and my most used games, along with a big mech drive for my steam folder, I just use steammover to move a game before I play it if it's on the mech drive. It doesn't take long.

Loads of games don't seem much quicker to load from an SSD anyway.

I'm not sure even if I had the cash I'd buy 2TB of SSD space for my steam library. Most of it I'll never play anyway. Lots of other more interesting things to dump that cash on.
 
Go for it, I do the same but with only a 120gb SSD. My 3 most played multiplayer games are on the SSD and my other games, single and multiplayer are on my larger 3tb HDD. Works great
 
Some good points, and I get the idea of the 4TB being a repository for the majority of my library. Not an access when playing. I like the idea, but again, I'll just be lazy and end up running games from it.

At any given time, I'll have 10 games installed at least. I think I'll go for the 4TB and simply use it as a repository/secondary drive.

Also, I have a 128GB SSD for OS, 1TB for the usuals (documents, pics, etc etc)
 
Xenia Onatopp said:
SSDs for everything, I don't have a mechanical drive.
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Yeah me too, i havent had an HDD since 2013 but i only use the PC for games and i have a fast fibre connection so i dont need much space as i just download games when i wanna play them, if ya have a poor connection then i guess ya would wanna keep all your games handy and if your steam library is anything like mine then that would be a little expensive on SSD :)
 
No way i would fork out the money to replace 5TB of storage, that will need expanding soon. It's too expensive to be practical. And lets not forget the amount of extra sata ports being taken up for the same capacity on ssds.
 
harry5522 said:
No way i would fork out the money to replace 5TB of storage, that will need expanding soon. It's too expensive to be practical.
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Nah, that's crazy talk.

500Gb/1TB SSD for OS and games, huge mechanical HDD for docs, pics, donkey porn etc and games backups. Job done.
 
Ryan0r said:
1TB HDD or SSD?

Is getting a 500GB SSD for OS and games feasible?
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I'd rather keep my OS away from my game install directories. So the 128GB SSD is purely for OS's, the 1TB mechanical is again, for all pictures and personal stuff (A LOTTTTT of pictures from over the years, really need to back them up) and then finally a 500GB SSD for games.

The games drive, is CONSTANTLY full. It's driving me insane. With Mass Effect Andromeda around the corner, again I'm going to have to remove a couple of games to fit it on.
 
Why would I do that

C: (OS) 64GB SSD
D: (Games) 1TB Western Digital Black

I can wipe the SSD, if I get BSOD which kills the OS, or a virus, or if change from one Windows version to another, and the games are still there.
 
hornetstinger said:
Why would I do that

C: (OS) 64GB SSD
D: (Games) 1TB Western Digital Black

I can wipe the SSD, if I get BSOD which kills the OS, or a virus, or if change from one Windows version to another, and the games are still there.
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I've got a similar setup. 60GB SSD for windows, 1tb drive for steam, second 1tb drive for backups.
 
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