I'm new to pc gaming and I am looking for storage drive to keep games on. I've only got a 500gb nvme drive at the moment. I saw on another post some mentioned AMD StoreMI and that might just be the answer for me. However what would be the ideal rpm for a storage drive? The pc is for gaming only.
5400 v 7200 for gaming
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It doesn't make a huge difference. If you're using steam you can just move you currently played game onto your SSD and archive your games on your HDD.
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Higher the rpm the faster the load times, so if you are going to be playing games from the drive I would go with at least a 7200rpm drive.
If just for storage, I'd still go with the faster drive myself, but a 5400rpm drive becomes more of an option.
If just for storage, I'd still go with the faster drive myself, but a 5400rpm drive becomes more of an option.
My main drive is 500GB NVMe. I keep all games there. Thanks to Steam I don't have to keep all games installed at once. Would strongly recommend to look at SSD. Even cheapest slowest SSD will make a huge difference in loading times.
Spinning 5400rpm is fine for media files, backups and such.
Spinning 5400rpm is fine for media files, backups and such.
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Sounds sensible.