expiredmagic1 posted Aug 30, 2023 10:42 AM
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expiredmagic1 posted Aug 30, 2023 10:42 AM
Western Digital WD_BLACK 3.5" Gaming Hard Drive: 10TB HDD (256MB cache) $176.27 + Free Shipping
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As an I.T. guy you should know that when an SSD fails it usually doesn't give much warning - sometimes a little, but it tends to just die, while an HDD will limp along long term half-assed working where you can pull your data off.
It's a great idea to put your most frequently run software and modern AAA titles on NVME's, I agree, however if you're playing classic titles - espeically in emulators there's little to no measurable advantage to using an NVME drive. I personally like to play modern titles that would have no NVME advantage, the Shantae games, Giana Sisters, Torchlight 3, all modern, no advantage with an NVME. Emulated games, even the best of the arcade games, no advantage with an NVME, in fact the price per TB makes this WD Black drive more appealing.
So say you're not like me and all you do is play modern AAA games that WILL have a measurable improvement played from an NVME versus a spinner. This spinner is STILL worth putting in your machine. Assume the average user has little to no interest in running a NAS.
Download FreeFileSync - very user friendly and scriptable - or, since I'm not a Windows user I forget about shadow-copy, etc... Dedicate this drive to shadow copy or as a backup target drive for those will die without notice NVME drives and still have something useful.
In my personal machine / is an NVME /home/dave is a SATA SSD, /games is an NVME, and /games/cache is a spinner - that where Lutris puts all of the files it downloads before I install them. I have some more drives that aren't relevant to the discussion, but I have room for everything.
As an I.T. guy you should know that when an SSD fails it usually doesn't give much warning - sometimes a little, but it tends to just die, while an HDD will limp along long term half-assed working where you can pull your data off.
It's a great idea to put your most frequently run software and modern AAA titles on NVME's, I agree, however if you're playing classic titles - espeically in emulators there's little to no measurable advantage to using an NVME drive. I personally like to play modern titles that would have no NVME advantage, the Shantae games, Giana Sisters, Torchlight 3, all modern, no advantage with an NVME. Emulated games, even the best of the arcade games, no advantage with an NVME, in fact the price per TB makes this WD Black drive more appealing.
So say you're not like me and all you do is play modern AAA games that WILL have a measurable improvement played from an NVME versus a spinner. This spinner is STILL worth putting in your machine. Assume the average user has little to no interest in running a NAS.
Download FreeFileSync - very user friendly and scriptable - or, since I'm not a Windows user I forget about shadow-copy, etc... Dedicate this drive to shadow copy or as a backup target drive for those will die without notice NVME drives and still have something useful.
In my personal machine / is an NVME /home/dave is a SATA SSD, /games is an NVME, and /games/cache is a spinner - that where Lutris puts all of the files it downloads before I install them. I have some more drives that aren't relevant to the discussion, but I have room for everything.
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ISO games tend to add up.
FYI - if you do specific testing and work with VMs, keeping VMs you don't need always on removable drive trays is a wonderful way to deal with them.
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