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SSD is the new minimum requirement for games, according to the creators of Starfield and Cyberpunk 2077 (www.aroged.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Of course. Storage space is cheaper on 7200rpm drives, and has, historically, for years. SSD is rapidly dropping in price, but it's not on the same level, yet. Western Digital Gold 4TB is $150 USD. Crucial MX500 4TB SSD is $200.

EDIT: SSD is also not available for large drives, 8-20TB.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

EDIT: SSD is also not available for large drives, 8-20TB.

Though I think all of the major OSes these days provide some way to create one logical volume out of multiple physical drives. As long as your system is one that can contain multiple drives -- and I understand if that's an issue for a laptop user -- you can just link together multiple SSDs to get whatever you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I got 12TB external HDD from a Best Buy sale two years for like $160. I have very slow Internet so I put a lot of my games that don't require an SSD on that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

6TB WD Black (7200RPM spinning rust) is ~$130 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NCMMSQX/ whereas a 4TB SSD is ~$150: https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Power-Performance-Internal-SP004TBSS3A55S25/dp/B0BVLRFFWQ/

So you get slightly better bang for your buck with spinning rust but not much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The mechanical drive is 70% cheaper per TB than the solid one. Thats more than "slightly better" in my book.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

6TB drive really isn't a fair example, as hard drive sizes increase smaller drives aren't produced as much if at all. That has an effect of raising the price of the remaining small drives as your customer base becomes people who need that drive like if you have a drive go bad in a raid array and want a matching drive.

So while yes a 6TB 7200 RPM drive is $130, a 12TB 7200RPM drive is also $130.
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Exos-Internal-Drive-Enterprise/dp/B07YYKKJVZ/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That Seagate drive you linked to is used. Might as well throw your data away, LOL!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't notice that, that's a very valid point. Still 6tb drives aren't the sweet spot price wise, but my example was bad.