SSHD vs HDD's | Drive for steam games

[K1mmi S]

Hello guys,

I want to buy a drive for my steam games, i've been looking and looking and looking, but I still don't know what to buy.

So I have a SSD 240GB that runs my OS.
And with the grand prix event I got so many good games, and I want to try them.
So i'm looking for buying a new drive just for games, but I don't want SSD 1GB because of the price.. it's like +120€
I was looking for HDD, and some people say 5900rpm and other people say 7200rpm it's really 50-50 opinions.

But I found Seagade Firecude SSHD 1TB, almost the same price as HDD 2TB Barracuda 7200rpm and 1TB 5900rpm.

Can you guys help me, should I buy the SSHD Firecude or 7200rpm HDD.

I know that the main difference it's the loading time but I don't mind about that.

I have an external drive for my documents so I just need 1 drive to start playing more games.

There are the options:

- 3.5" Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA III

- 3.5" Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA III

- 3.5" Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM 256MB SATA III

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Look at WD Black 2tb or WD Gold 4tb

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

I have 2 TB Barracuda 7200rpm for my Steam library with Steam itself and few games on SSD, works fine for gaming.

[emoticorpse]

Barracuda 2TB 7200. I have a bunch of 8 TB barracudas. Currently all my Steam drives are on 4 TB Toshiba x300 that I'm waiting for to die.

[Majestic Turkey]

sshd ssd cache is too small to matter. Just get a regular drive max capacity, game engines are rather good at loading things efficiently and streaming data as much as possible to get around slow drives, they've had to optimize around consoles and their slow drives after all.

There are certain games that load tons of tiny files , old engines like tf2 that choke on a regular drive, reserve space on your ssd for those few, you'll know which ones they are, its obvious.

Hard link shell extension makes it easy to move steam folders at will as junction points, basically a system transparent shortcut.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

SSHD types are rather pointless when you already have OS and Core Apps installed to an SSD

And I wouldn't settle for just a 1tb, I'd go bigger. Bigger drives like 2TB or larger offered in models such as WD Black, WD Gold, Seagate IronWolf, tend to be much faster overall compared to say, WD Blue 1TB or Seagate Barracuda 1TB

[K1mmi S]

But a 2TB WD Black it's more expensive than a 1TB SSD

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If 1tb is enough, yes just get a 1tb ssd, they are around 100$

[tacoshy]

Originally posted by K1m1 Sensei:

But a 2TB WD Black it's more expensive than a 1TB SSD

befor I go with a WD Black I would go with a WD Gold. Superior in every thing for same or lower price.

WD Gold offers 24/7 lifetime premium support
Is faster in IOPS and sequential operations
Is more silent
has the better warranty
better RAID Support
Rated for higher usage

With a 10TB WD Gold as example you reach seq. read speeds of 280-300MB/s. Which is great for a HDD.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I forget the lowest size available in the WD Gold series but yes that series basically replaces the WD Black except for smaller ones such as 500, 750 gb and 1.0, 1.5 tb sizes

[K1mmi S]

Okay, I think i'm gonna get the WD Black
I read something about the Seagate vs WD, people were saying that WD was not viable, but from I i'm seeing now, seagate is the one that isn't viable what happened?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I can't ever remember a time in the age of 3.5 inch drives when Seagate was better, LOL not by a long shot.

Even in the old days, even Maxtor or Hitachi were better options

[Ryan]

I prefer ssd for use with steam games as it run quicker than hhd....