I am having a hard time envisioning a significant number of people with 1) current AAA games, 2) machines powerful enough to play them, but 3) without an SSD. That has to be a very small group.
SSD’s are not expensive at all to someone buying AAA games and playing on modern rigs. They cost as much as a single game now.
A 512gb external SSD is trivial to get. In the US they’re like $60. If you can afford a modern computer that can play AAA games at half decent settings there’s no way you don’t have an SSD. You can’t even buy computers with internal HDD’s anymore without looking for it specifically.
I personally just compensate for my HDD array’s slowness with RAM. Cyberpunk 2077 runs at more than 30fps on an rx580 being loaded off a HDD with 20GB RAM on Linux.
Yeah I built my pc two years ago. Didn’t bother with an ssd, wound up getting 4tb of ssd last year because it needed it (well I thought that’s what it needed, it did need it, but my problem was in addition to dragging over my old hdds I also just kept the same 8gb ram stick, turns out games actually run when you have 32gb ram)
I am having a hard time envisioning a significant number of people with 1) current AAA games, 2) machines powerful enough to play them, but 3) without an SSD. That has to be a very small group.
SSDs are expensive, HDDs are not and already exist for blu ray and Linux ISO storage.
SSD’s are not expensive at all to someone buying AAA games and playing on modern rigs. They cost as much as a single game now.
A 512gb external SSD is trivial to get. In the US they’re like $60. If you can afford a modern computer that can play AAA games at half decent settings there’s no way you don’t have an SSD. You can’t even buy computers with internal HDD’s anymore without looking for it specifically.
You were correct in 2020. It’s 2024.
I personally just compensate for my HDD array’s slowness with RAM. Cyberpunk 2077 runs at more than 30fps on an rx580 being loaded off a HDD with 20GB RAM on Linux.
Dude SSD’s are cheap as hell. Less than your ram cost. Your load times will be by like 80% easily. Even crap ones
Yeah I built my pc two years ago. Didn’t bother with an ssd, wound up getting 4tb of ssd last year because it needed it (well I thought that’s what it needed, it did need it, but my problem was in addition to dragging over my old hdds I also just kept the same 8gb ram stick, turns out games actually run when you have 32gb ram)