@warm_gun: well, yes and no. Platter drives are cheaper, but painful to play all-digital on. The fastest ones are high fail risk (ask me how I know 😝).
There's no way I'd spend 950 on an SSD, but I'd also (and do) happily invest in smaller SSDs over cheaper platter counterparts of the same size
@warm_gun: well, yes and no. Platter drives are cheaper, but painful to play all-digital on. The fastest ones are high fail risk (ask me how I know 😝).
There's no way I'd spend 950 on an SSD, but I'd also (and do) happily invest in smaller SSDs over cheaper platter counterparts of the same size
Mechanical drives are just fine for gaming. I've been gaming on my 7200 RPM drive for more than eight years and it shows no signs of failing soon. "Painful" is such a strong word to describe occasional loading, that normally isn't that long anyway.
@warm_gun: Yeah. I may go with 2TB instead as I don't see myself buying as many games this gen. Not as many interest me. Not as much time. I currently have a 4TB external for all my PS4 games.
@warm_gun: well, yes and no. Platter drives are cheaper, but painful to play all-digital on. The fastest ones are high fail risk (ask me how I know 😝).
There's no way I'd spend 950 on an SSD, but I'd also (and do) happily invest in smaller SSDs over cheaper platter counterparts of the same size
Mechanical drives are just fine for gaming. I've been gaming on my 7200 RPM drive for more than eight years and it shows no signs of failing soon. "Painful" is such a strong word to describe occasional loading, that normally isn't that long anyway.
You'll know how painful it is when you finally upgrade.
@warm_gun: Yeah. I may go with 2TB instead as I don't see myself buying as many games this gen. Not as many interest me. Not as much time. I currently have a 4TB external for all my PS4 games.
I'm in the same boat, but on PC. Barely play any of the new games anymore. There isn't a single one that makes me wanna upgrade my outdated GTX 1070.
@Zero_epyon said:
You'll know how painful it is when you finally upgrade.
@warm_gun: You get so much more value with mechanical hard drives.
Totally agree, & I have been shouting from the rooftops that they went SSD a gen too early..It is obviously great tech, but it is just too expensive for recommended speed ssd's at this point.
I need at least an extra 4TB to last the whole gen & currently that equates to $1500au, that is the price of TWO PS5 disk versions ($750au each).
@warm_gun: it's not just load times - you get real-time game stutter when data are streamed for high speed gaming (e.g., racing or flight; or even sometimes frame drops at lower speeds when transitioning between rooms in things like an fps). This can be alleviated with better coding, of course. But sadly many developers don't seem to be good at that
And yes, the load times can be painful. It takes like what must be well over a minute to load TWW2 on my 7200rpm. I have both on my rig and moving the game to my SSD is absolutely night and day
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