SSD required?

[Jack]

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

[Nishi Kinuyo]

It might run, and you'll likely experience stuttering as things get loaded in.

Originally posted by Hey I'm Back!:

HDDs are slow as hell nowadays lol

They actually got faster over the past decade.
Not by much, and mostly for sequential read/write, but speeds up to 250MB/s are decently possible now. (SATA SSDs are typically around the 500-550MB/s, btw.)

[Wurf]

Originally posted by 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.

I got 2x 2TB M.2's in raid0
Hella fast read and write speeds.

[Shook Ones]

Yes

[Jack]

Originally posted by Wurf:

Originally posted by 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.

I got 2x 2TB M.2's in raid0
Hella fast read and write speeds.

This is end goal. getting the 9800x3d once that's in stock.

[MapleOmega]

M.2/SSD just load data so much faster especially as the technology continues to improve. Having an SSD or M.2 format drive is just the way to go now.

[Jack]

Originally posted by Silverino:

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.

:♥♥♥♥::repoop: Look up "direct storage" and then report back...

This is what i'm asking about when i'm asking if a SSD is required.

[Jack]

Originally posted by Jack:

Originally posted by Silverino:

:♥♥♥♥::repoop: Look up "direct storage" and then report back...

This is what i'm asking about when i'm asking if a SSD is required.

there is 0 info on it.

[Jack]

Game runs perfectly fine on the 8700k 1080ti with the 2x2TB HDD in RAID0 with very little Stutter or loading issues. 60fps on highpreset using AMD FSR with no up scaling.

Seems the recommended spec was overkill.

[Darkside99x]

I accidentally selected the wrong drive on install and was not waiting for it to move to the SSD but had zero issues playing on the standard hard drive.

[NeoOne]

Not just SSD but M.2 SSD. The shader compiler takes about 1 minute. The game loads about 30 seconds.

[The Anglo Spaniard]

Originally posted by 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.

I just shoved it on a M.2. Runs amazing as a result

[neos769]

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.

Hybrid storage solutions is the way to go! Not SSDs exclusively.

[Praesi]

HDD is dead for Gaming and Devs dont have them in mind anymore.

[Jack]

Originally posted by Praesi:

HDD is dead for Gaming and Devs dont have them in mind anymore.

Thread has already been answered.

Originally posted by Jack:

Game runs perfectly fine on the 8700k 1080ti with the 2x2TB HDD in RAID0 with very little Stutter or loading issues. 60fps on highpreset using AMD FSR with no up scaling.

Seems the recommended spec was overkill.

[Slate]

For gaming M.2 NVMe is the only way to go averaging 3.5GB/s -6GB/s compared to 500 MB/s, HDDs are great for backups since they physically write data to a disk however.