I’ma say it: Spinning disks are still a good choice for gaming. I wouldn’t run my OS off one, but I would and do install my games library on one.
Awful idea for games with a lot of leading screens, such as Skyrim.
Total War Warhammer is arguably unplayable on HDD.
Did you know that you can move things between drives? No one plays their entire Steam library at the same time, but I can store much of it ready to play on large-capacity HDDs, which are dirt-cheap. If I suddenly got back into Skyrim again, I’d spend a few minutes moving it to one of my SSDs.
Skyrim is not going to take a few minutes. A few hours, at best.
Not even remotely true on modern hardware. It’s pretty quick.
Honestly…spinning disks are good for anything. Yeah I don’t have any in my gaming rig but my NAS is only spinners. Cheap and fast enough.
It all comes down to how much money you have. If you can only afford spinning disks, then get them - and enjoy your gaming. If you can afford faster drives then great, good for you!
I used to think this too until I got a proper NVME (instead of another SATA SSD). Once you get used to programs opening instantly—and no loading screens in games, ever—there’s no going back to spinning disks. Waiting 10-20 seconds for a program to open on a HDD feels like an eternity now.
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Yeah but you must recognise that’s a luxury. There’s no going back because your circumstances allow it. If someone needs more storage but they can’t afford an SSD then there is going back - and I for one would choose loading screens over no screens.
There’s way too much snobbery around PCs imo. I want to encourage the world to be more compromising so that there is no societal pressure to buy this year’s gfx card for £1700 and this year’s CPU for £700 and this year’s newest nvme for £300 etc…etc…buy what you can and want to afford.
You make good points and I have nothing further to add.
Theres only one type of mod that racked up 100gb of Skyrim mods. And it’s not because of looting mods!
Yeah. Textures and remodels.
100 GBs is mid-tier modding nowadays. That’s where you stop if you want Skyrim to still be Skyrim instead of a game made in the last 5 years that is actually good.
Who the hell only have 100GB of modded Skyrim? Even just my install of FO4 is at least 400GB.
I think the point is that he quit playing a long time ago but can’t bring himself to delete it. Even to free up a bit of space.
What do want him to do? Redownload 100GB worth of mods at some point in the future in which he wants to play the game again?
I don’t know about you but I’m keeping my 400GB modded FO4, even if I haven’t touched the game in more than half a year. I rather spend 4 hours updating mods than spend 8 hours redownloading everything and spend another 8 hours debugging the crashes.
I’m pretty sure that you don’t understand I agree with him.
