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how good is 14tb seagate expansion desktop (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to use this to run games at 1080p 60fps, and store a bunch of games, movies, and files. The price is really good at $240 canadian for 14tb, but how is it in terms of reliability?

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/seagate-expansion-desktop-14tb-usb-3-0-external-hard-drive-stkp14000400/15469301

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I do not recall any issues with it. So, it is should be fine as others in terms of reliability.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

run games at 1080p 60fps

hard drive speed does not really correlate to gaming performance that way, you should probably move any modern game to an SSD for increased performance, and some more recent titles also demand it for world streaming (i.e. Dead Space 2023). hard drives are just bad at random reads, no matter what you do.