SSD required?

[Jack]

Is a SSD actually required? or would RAID 0 Hard disks running similar read and writes of a sata SSD suffice?

[Mr.Fish]

bro put your hard drives away in a box to show your grand children and get an ssd, its nearly 2025 for god sakes.

i too am nostalgic about 7200rpm and the 1990s but there comes a time when we need to leave the past in the past.

[Jack]

Originally posted by Mr.Fish:

bro put your hard drives away in a box to show your grand children and get an ssd, its nearly 2025 for god sakes.

i too am nostalgic about 7200rpm and the 1990s but there comes a time when we need to leave the past in the past.

I have a NVME. but when i have 8tb of storage readily available i'd rather use that if possible for games. Especially ones that are 160gb in size.

[TTVGameslayer1889]

Originally posted by Jack:

Is a SSD actually required? or would RAID 0 Hard disks running similar read and writes of a sata SSD suffice?

This Game will need a SSD its a hugee gameee

[Jack]

Originally posted by Mr.Fish:

bro put your hard drives away in a box to show your grand children and get an ssd, its nearly 2025 for god sakes.

i too am nostalgic about 7200rpm and the 1990s but there comes a time when we need to leave the past in the past.

I'd prefer an actual serious answer to the question rather than just spend money on a SSD bro.

[pizzawolf238]

SSDs seem to be required for new games because of how they handle data loads? I'm not very tech savvy, but it largely seems that the answer is if a game requires an SSD, it'll run terribly without one, M.2 preferred if possible

[Jack]

Originally posted by TTVGameslayer1889:

Originally posted by Jack:

Is a SSD actually required? or would RAID 0 Hard disks running similar read and writes of a sata SSD suffice?

This Game will need a SSD its a hugee gameee

my Raid array runs at 500 MB/s same as a SATA SSD. getting a SSD for the sake of it being a SSD doesn't really help here as sata cables are the limitation. this is why i'm asking if it's a requirement. please read the OP again.

[Jack]

Originally posted by pizzawolf238:

SSDs seem to be required for new games because of how they handle data loads? I'm not very tech savvy, but it largely seems that the answer is if a game requires an SSD, it'll run terribly without one, M.2 preferred if possible

This is the kind of answer i'm looking for from the devs ideally. as they've not specified if a M2 would be a requirement for the ideal Read/write.

[Hey I'm Back!]

HDDs are slow as hell nowadays lol

[PizzaKuro]

Originally posted by pizzawolf238:

SSDs seem to be required for new games because of how they handle data loads? I'm not very tech savvy, but it largely seems that the answer is if a game requires an SSD, it'll run terribly without one, M.2 preferred if possible

Yes

[Costarring]

Suggestions/recommendations are mandatory???

[Jack]

Originally posted by Jack:

Originally posted by TTVGameslayer1889:

This Game will need a SSD its a hugee gameee

my Raid array runs at 500 MB/s same as a SATA SSD. getting a SSD for the sake of it being a SSD doesn't really help here as sata cables are the limitation. this is why i'm asking if it's a requirement. please read the OP again.

Originally posted by Hey I'm Back!:

HDDs are slow as hell nowadays lol

[Jack]

Originally posted by Costarring:

Suggestions are mandatory???

Some games do actually restrict to SSD's only. or restrict features to SSD only.

[Jack]

Originally posted by Stormbleidd:

Just for the record, there is no difference from a Sata SSD to a M.2 Nvme when loading and playing games. None. Everything is the same, I don't care what people say.

There is a difference when you are transferring files though, Major difference.

the only way you'd see a difference is if the game required to transfer file to the ram faster than the max rate of the Drive. as the CPU/GPU will be pulling the data from the ram regardless.

[Harris]

Got myself a 4TB M.2 a few years ago, never looked back. Also very easy to install, you literally just slide it into the motherboard and call it a day.

[Chief Marlboro Reds]

Future is now old man. Submit to SSD