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Bad Aim Dec 17, 2024 @ 6:43am

HDD Drives

I have a couple of old HDD drives that are still active in my PC. I do have four NVMe drives.

The HDD's that I have are Western Digital Black drives and in very good condition.

What games should I put on those? Maybe games made before 2020? Or 2010?

Opinions please.

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Originally posted by Midnight Aurais:

its on a game basis open world or ssd requirement then off course they go on the ssd due to more i/o reads even older games

while open world games stick to the ssd even in older titles the rest is often fine on a hdd a thing people forget is that old games are optimized to run on hdd the claims people give that old games also run better on ssd's is due to them having very slow hard drives so they get a uplift but only as fast as a fast hdd

the optimizations do not turn off just because you have a ssd you might have encountered it before a loading screen that loads nothing because the ssd has already loaded the game you are still sitting out the timer which was done so people do not see the loading done by the hdd even if you see a loading bar go up its fake

majority of indie games even today run fine from a hard drive aswel because there still games released with hard drives in mind just because a ssd is faster does not always mean its the fastest solution to a completing a task

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Bad Aim Dec 18, 2024 @ 3:03pm

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:
When you can get a 4TB ssd now for under $200 where is it an issue where you need to have games on a HDD

I would like to have most of my games from Steam and GoG installed and ready to play. On Steam I have over 400 games and on GoG I have over 100 games. All of the games I have on GoG can be put on a HDD. GoG mainly deals with older titles. Most of the games I have there are games like Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Star Trek Armada, and Zork: Nemesis.

The two WD Gold drives are my storage drives. Right now they are in an external Network drive. Later on I want to use my old PC and turn it into a server, adding 10 and 20 TB HDD's with a NVMe drive as the C drive.

That is why I want more hard drive space, why I will be useing all of my mother boards 7 NVMe slots, and why I am seriously looking at getting a 10TB WD Black HDD drive.

Between my two PC's and my external drives, my dream is to have 1PB of hard drive space.

Last edited by Bad Aim; Dec 18, 2024 @ 3:04pm

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Obsessive Power Dec 18, 2024 @ 3:20pm

Originally posted by Bad Aim:

Between my two PC's and my external drives, my dream is to have 1PB of hard drive space.

You know 1PB is 1000 Terabytes right?

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Bad Aim Dec 18, 2024 @ 3:25pm

Originally posted by Obsessive Power:
Originally posted by Bad Aim:

Between my two PC's and my external drives, my dream is to have 1PB of hard drive space.

You know 1PB is 1000 Terabytes right?

Yes, I know what a petabyte is. The first PC I put together was in the early 90s. It was a 486 DX-80. My first PC was in the 80s, it was an 8088. No hard drive and two 5 1/4" drives. CGA monitor. I am extremely aware of what a KB, MB, GB, TB, and PB is. My first hard drive was a WD 250MB hard drive. At that time, I couldn't really imagine why someone would need a GB hard drive.

The 8088 had 256KB of system memory, up-gradable to 512KB of system memory.

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HIVEmind Dec 18, 2024 @ 3:26pm

Give your computer a thuro workout.
Star citizen

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HIVEmind Dec 18, 2024 @ 3:28pm

My first pc by the way was a commador 64. 64k ram. Cassette drive. Eat that!

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Bad Aim Dec 18, 2024 @ 3:32pm

Originally posted by m.kataro:
Give your computer a thuro workout.
Star citizen

No need. With the Core Ultra 7 and a medium to high grade gaming MB, I know what my computer is able to do.

I am curious though, it used to be that the Crysis series of games were what was used to really stress a system. After all, the Crysis games were actually designed for technology that had not been released yet. Is that no longer the case?

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