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The Sales Will Continue

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I'ma say it: Spinning disks are still a good choice for gaming. I wouldn't run my OS off one, but I would and do install my games library on one.

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- Awful idea for games with a lot of leading screens, such as Skyrim.
  
  Total War Warhammer is arguably unplayable on HDD.
  
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  Did you know that you can move things between drives? No one plays their entire Steam library at the same time, but I can store much of it ready to play on large-capacity HDDs, which are dirt-cheap. If I suddenly got back into Skyrim again, I'd spend a few minutes moving it to one of my SSDs.
  
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- Depends on the game. I’ve definitely seen requirements list an SSD specifically and the game was designed around that assumption.
  
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- I tend to agree for most things, but modern Blizzard titles are near unplayable without SSD because of they way that they load assets. You'd be technically in the game, but half of the models take 5 minutes to load in.
  
  The are other games that load in things like this, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.
  
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- Honestly......spinning disks are good for anything. Yeah I don't have any in my gaming rig but my NAS is only spinners. Cheap and fast enough.
  
  It all comes down to how much money you have. If you can only afford spinning disks, then get them - and enjoy your gaming. If you can afford faster drives then great, good for you!
  
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  I used to think this too until I got a proper NVME (instead of another SATA SSD). Once you get used to programs opening instantly—and no loading screens in games, ever—there's no going back to spinning disks. Waiting 10-20 seconds for a program to open on a HDD feels like an eternity now.
  
  Edit: formatting, spelling
  
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- Have you seen the prices for 8 TB ssds?
  
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Theres only one type of mod that racked up 100gb of Skyrim mods. And it's not because of looting mods!

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- What happens between a dude, a super mutant, and a fisting sexbot is their business.
  
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  That's Fallout. In Skyrim it's all about dragussy
  
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  Leave Fisto out of this.
  
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- Yeah. Textures and remodels.
  
  100 GBs is mid-tier modding nowadays. That's where you stop if you want Skyrim to still be Skyrim instead of a game made in the last 5 years that is actually good.
  
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::laughs in Ark: Survival Evolved::

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- *Laughs in Spider-Man 2 Brazil* (the unofficial PC port)
  
  It's a 256GB download, and when there's an update, you have to re-download the entire game again. I hope you have gigabit internet.
  
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  Spider-Man 2 got a PC version, but it was a completely different game from the more well-known console versions and wasn't nearly as good. A linear progression of levels instead of an open world and you could only swing from "webbing points."
  
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  Ark with all its DLCs somehow manages to be bigger than this.
  
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100GB for a game? Rookie numbers by today’s standards. Removing that still wouldn’t be enough for modern “AAA” games

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I unironically want Todd Howard to release Skyrim again with full pathtracing support

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- 4090s around the world tremble in fear
  
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Who the hell only have 100GB of modded Skyrim? Even just my install of FO4 is at least 400GB.

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- I think the point is that he quit playing a long time ago but can't bring himself to delete it. Even to free up a bit of space.
  
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  What do want him to do? Redownload 100GB worth of mods at some point in the future in which he wants to play the game again?
  
  I don't know about you but I'm keeping my 400GB modded FO4, even if I haven't touched the game in more than half a year. I rather spend 4 hours updating mods than spend 8 hours redownloading everything and spend another 8 hours debugging the crashes.
  
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This is why I have 3 5tb m2 drives. I get lots of bitches with them

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